All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Threat to block 'disrespectful' blog's free tickets
14/08/2014 … A row has erupted on the Edinburgh Fringe after a PR company threatened to withdraw free press tickets from bloggers for not showing enough respect to the comedians…
Comedy Central US orders pilot
14/08/2014 … Offbeat comedian Kurt Braunohler could become the next late-night talk show host on American TV.
© Charles Haynes/Creative Commons President Obama joins tributes
12/08/2014 … Robin Williams took his own life by hanging himself at his California home, police have confirmed.
© Charles Haynes/Creative Commons 12/08/2014 … Robin Williams has been found dead at his home the age of 63, in an apparent suicide.
BBC passes on Seann Walsh's monastery sitcom
12/08/2014 … The BBC have decided not to make a series of the monastery-set sitcom Monks, which aired earlier this year.
Six new episodes from policeman turned comic
12/08/2014 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series from policeman-turned-comedian Alfie Moore.
12/08/2014 … THE INBETWEENERS 2 has had the biggest opening weekend at the British box office of 2014, grossing £12.
Stars take on viewers' tasks for C4
11/08/2014 … Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies and Russell Howard are to take part in a new TV show in which celebrities take on tasks set by viewers.
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