All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Summer Laughs series to launch this month
02/06/2025 … Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, Rosco Mcclelland, Liam Withnail and Stuart McPherson are to release stand-up specials for free…
'It's been an incredible time'
02/06/2025 … Marc Maron is bringing his WTF podcast to an end after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes.
© BBC Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran write Gary Sparrow's next chapter
01/06/2025 … Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are to write a final episode of their time-slip sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart – as a novel.
© Damian Bennett 01/06/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© ITVX The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
01/06/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday June 1 MOUNTAINHEAD: This new film, landing on Sky today, is written and directed…
© BBC ...and how he might be easing off in his busy comedy career
01/06/2025 … Romesh Ranganathan has spoken frankly about having suicidal thoughts, but says he is now in ‘one of the best places I've ever been in my life’.
For comics who've 'been around long enough to know better’
01/06/2025 … Sean Patrick has won the Not So New Comedian Of The Year competition.
As he claims 'we won' against cancel culture
31/05/2025 … Ricky Gervais has been given his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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