All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC 'I wouldn't play a black character or joke about transvestites again'
04/10/2017 … Matt Lucas has admitted Little Britain was ‘cruel’ – and says he wouldn’t make that kind of comedy again.
New series for Lucy Beaumont sitcom
04/10/2017 … Radio 4 has ordered a third series of Lucy Beaumont’s sitcom To Hull And Back.
Playing a drag queen in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
04/10/2017 … Stand-up Phil Nichol has joined the cast of West End musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – playing a middle-aged drag queen called Hugo.
...or at least tries, for a new ITV2 series
04/10/2017 … Keith Lemon is to try to crack America in a new mockumentary for ITV2.
© Comedy Central Revealed: Comedy Central Roast Battle line-ups
03/10/2017 … Chortle can tonight reveal the line-ups for the new Roast Battles coming to Comedy Central UK.
© Hacked Off And calls for more investigation into Mirror executives
03/10/2017 … Steve Coogan has won undisclosed damages thought to run into the hundreds of thousands of pounds for being the victim of phone hacking.
Based on Luther star's 1980s childhood
03/10/2017 … Bill Bailey and Idris Elba are to star in a new Sky1 comedy set in the 1980s.
Weekend gigs in the historic Rotunda
03/10/2017 … Glasgow has a new comedy club that’s claiming to be Scotland’s largest.
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