All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Comedy Central Jimmy Carr does Desert Island Discs
05/03/2017 … When Jimmy Carr first met his long-term girlfriend, she thought he was a ‘one-note comedian with the eyes of a sex offender’.
04/03/2017 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
© Graham Hogg/Creative Commons Dave Johns on how Ken Loach changed his life
04/03/2017 … Dave Johns has revealed he was about to quit comedy to run beach donkey rides before he landed the title role in I, Daniel Blake.
New deal with America's Comedy Central
03/03/2017 … Jim Jefferies is to host a new late-night topical show for Comedy Central in the States.
03/03/2017 … Miranda Hart is to become a children’s author.
Newspaper pulls 'racist' guide to comedy festival
03/03/2017 … The media partner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been forced to withdraw an article about comedians, after it was widely condemned as racist.
© C4 Controversial comic should have been Brian Potter
03/03/2017 … Peter Kay has revealed that he wrote the part of club-owner Brian Potter in Phoenix Nights for Bernard Manning.
Bug hits iPlayer radio comedies
03/03/2017 … The BBC is investigating why some comedy programmes have been cut short on iPlayer.
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