All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Montreal's Just For Laughs to get first look
13/06/2016 … The movie about a struggling stand-up based on the real-life exploits of British comic James Mullinger is to get its first preview at Montreal's Just For Laughs…
12/06/2016 … Sunday June 13LIVE IN BRISTOL: The city's annual Slapstick Festival of silent and vintage comedy is holding a starry fundraiser at the Colston Hall.
'It's a cheap laugh - but offensive'
12/06/2016 … Warwick Davis has called on comics to stop using the word ‘midget’ to get a 'cheap laugh’.
Producers launch global competition
11/06/2016 … One Family Guy fan is to be immortalised as an animated character in the show.
© BBC 10/06/2016 … Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray has been made an OBE in a the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours list He tweeted: ‘So humbled to be part of #BirthdayHonours.
With John Finnemore and Kerry Godliman
10/06/2016 … Sky1 has ordered a family sitcom about a boy who becomes an internet millionaire, Chortle can reveal.
10/06/2016 … • 'Showbiz is a fickle old twat, who loves you one minute and then sleeps with Russell Brand behind your back.
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