All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Sonny Malhotra Comedians' wrestling clashes coming to TV for the first time
09/10/2025 … Clash Of The Comics – in which comedians wrestle with each other and pros – is to air to U&Dave.
...as Omid Djalili explains his decision to play Saudi
08/10/2025 … Andrew Maxwell has become the latest British-based comic to play the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle can reveal.
Creator mooted plans to revive one of the most-slated British comedy films ever
08/10/2025 … It was one of the most roundly slated British comedy films ever – yet plans have been floated to turn Sex Lives Of The Potato Men into a TV series.
© Netflix ...and here are the first images from Rowan Atkinson's new comedy
08/10/2025 … Rowan Atkinson’s new series Man vs Baby will launch on Netflix on December 11, the streamer has announced.
'‘I understand the thing about overexposure...'
08/10/2025 … Romesh Ranganathan is to make his West End debut, starring in an Alan Ayckbourn play.
© Eva Rinaldi via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0 'You're making hotdogs out of the lives of human beings'
07/10/2025 … Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, ‘Please, just stop sending me AI…
16,000 tickets sold, boosting local business
07/10/2025 … The Aberdeen Comedy Festival has been hailed a success after 16,000 tickets were issued to 40 gigs across the Granite City.
BBC orders a maternity unit sitcom created by Jessica Knappett
07/10/2025 … The BBC has commissioned a new sitcom from Jessica Knappett, set in the maternity unit of a small rural hospital in West Yorkshire.
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