BFI preserves comedy training videos
Titles from John Cleese's Video Arts
20/05/2016 … Corporate training videos featuring comedians are to be preserved by the British Film Institute.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 20 May 2016
Watch Stephen Fry in his new US sitcom
CBS release The Great Indoors trailer
20/05/2016 … The first trailer has been released for Stephen Fry's new US sitcom, The Great Indoors.
The dangers of inflation...
20/05/2016 … • 'There's an inherent anger in English audiences' Russell Howard.
© BBC/King Bert BBC orders Walliams & Friend series
Jack Whitehall to be guest star
20/05/2016 … Sketch show David Walliams and Friends has been given a full series on BBC One.
Thu 19 May 2016
Marxism rises again...
'Lost' Marx Bros revue is revived
19/05/2016 … A 'lost' Marx Brothers musical is to open off Broadway later this month.
Second London date for Louis CK
19/05/2016 … Louis CK has announced a second London date this summer The comic will be appearing at the SSE Arena Wembley on Saturday August 13 as well as Friday August 12,…
Anger over Shirley Ghostman's phantom gigs
19/05/2016 … Fans of spiritualist comedy character Shirley Ghostman are up in arms after shows he cancelled seven months ago have still not been rescheduled.
© Dave Morris / Creative Commons BBC goes to 'Hogwarts'
19/05/2016 … The BBC is moving its Edinburgh Fringe hub to the grounds of the prestigious private school said to have inspired Hogwarts.