All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
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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…
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.
Sky travelogue ahead of 2017 stand-up dates
19/07/2016 … Micky Flanagan is filming a new six-part travelogue for Sky 1 – as well as planning a stand-up tour for next year.
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.
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…
19/07/2016 … A comedian has been kidnapped, beaten then dumped in the street by a musician he mocked in a sketch.
© Bafta '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.
19/07/2016 … Former BBC radio comedy boss John Pidgeon has died this morning at the age of 69.
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