© Bafta Bafta LA to honour Ricky Gervais
'Provocative, edgy and pushes the boundaries'
19/07/2016 … Ricky Gervais is to receive the annual comedy award handed out by Bafta in Los Angeles.
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Guests named for John Bishop's chat show
Corden, Coogan and Jo Brand among them
19/07/2016 … The full list of guests for John Bishop’s new chat show has been announced.
Former BBC radio comedy chief John Pidgeon dies
19/07/2016 … Former BBC radio comedy boss John Pidgeon has died this morning at the age of 69.
BBC orders a series from Shane Todd
Break for Northern Irish stand-up
19/07/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a stand-up, sketch and interview series from Northern Irish comic Shane Todd.
'It's just too much. It shouldn't be like this'
Racist Twitter hell of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones
19/07/2016 … Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones has been forced off Twitter after being bombarded by sexist and racist abuse.
Rhys Darby joins Australia's Whose Line?
With Steen Raskopoulos and more...
19/07/2016 … Rhys Darby has joined the team of improvisers on the new Australian version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?Also appearing alongside the Flight of the Conchords star…
Comic kidnapped and beaten over a sketch
19/07/2016 … A comedian has been kidnapped, beaten then dumped in the street by a musician he mocked in a sketch.
Kevin Eldon joins Funny Cow
19/07/2016 … KEVIN ELDON has joined the cast of Funny Cow, the comedy-drama film about a woman who becomes a comedian on the Northern working men's club circuit in the 1970s…