All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sam Bain also reveals Fresh Meat news
17/05/2013 … Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong were lined up to write Flight of the Conchords' US sitcom but had to pull out when their Channel 4 show was recommissioned.
17/05/2013 … Ricky Gervais name-drops in a new interview with GQ, revealing his attitude to ‘jumping the shark’: ‘Christopher Guest said to me—we were talking about comedians…
Comedy Store wins legal victory after its Indian joint venture collapses
17/05/2013 … The Comedy Store’s joint venture to run a stand-up club in India has fallen apart with a protracted legal battle, following allegations of financial irregularities.
Richard Herring to start charging for videos
16/05/2013 … Richard Herring is to start charging for video versions of his hit podcasts – in the hope of being able to fund ‘TV-quality’ stand-up shows that he can release…
Ted Bovis, the ultimate club comic
16/05/2013 … Paul Shane, who epitomised the holiday-camp comic as Hi-de-Hi!’s Ted Bovis, has died at the age of 72.
Relatively unknown comic books himself into Fringe's largest venue
15/05/2013 … A relatively unknown comic has booked himself into the biggest venue at the Edinburgh Fringe, in what he hopes will be a triumph of positive thinking.
Radio 4 rapped over 'grossly offensive' pun
15/05/2013 … Radio 4 has been criticised by the BBC Trust for a ‘grossly offensive’ pun.
15/05/2013 … Billy Connolly and David Tennant are to star in the new big-screen comedy from the writers of Outnumbered.
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