Simon Callow to play The Rebel
New sitcom based on The Oldie's cartoon strip
15/01/2016 … Simon Callow is to star in a new sitcom based on The Oldie magazine’s cartoon strip The Rebel.
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Fri 15 January 2016
Chris Addison's right direction
Comic up for award for helming Veep
15/01/2016 … Chris Addison is up for a Directors Guild of America award for helming an episode of Veep.
Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness pilot sketch show
Test episode to be taped next month
15/01/2016 … Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness are piloting a sketch show together.
Michael McIntyre is Mr Saturday Night
15/01/2016 … BBC One has signed Michael McIntyre to present a new Saturday night comedy and variety show.
Adam Hills fingers crocodiles
15/01/2016 … • 'So I've got Parkinson's disease.
R4 recommissions Simon Evans Goes To Market
Four more episodes for the summer
15/01/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of the comedy economics show Simon Evans Go To Market.
Thu 14 January 2016
Fags Mags & Bags to return
Sixth series after a three-year absence
14/01/2016 … Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags & Bags is to return to for a sixth series.
'Alternative comedy was driven by hatred of the working class'
...and that's why we have issues of taste, argues Ivor Dembina
14/01/2016 … The idea of offence in stand-up only arose because comedy became more middle-class in the wake of the alternative cabaret boom of the 1980s.