All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
With humiliation for the losers
12/08/2011 … Amanda Byram is to host the new Sky1 talent show in which comedians who fail to entertain will be ejected from the stage via trap doors, bungee cords or explosions.
Rudi's outburst over Show Me The Funny
12/08/2011 … Rudi Lickwood has branded judge Kate Copstick a ‘bitter and twisted failed stand-up’ after being kicked off ITV’s Show Me The Funny.
12/08/2011 … Micky Flanagan has signed a deal to write his memoirs, to be released in Christmas next year.
11/08/2011 … The BBC has announced more additions to its coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as the shows it is staging.
09/08/2011 … Chris Addison is to become a permanent team regular on Mock The Week when it returns next month.
09/08/2011 … Rudi Lickwood has become the latest comedian to be voted off ITV’s Show Me The Funny.
Festival-goers give a huge thumbs-up
08/08/2011 … The Edinburgh Fringe seems to be addictive – with almost a third of people going to shows saying they have been to the festival at least ten times.
With Robert Lindsay and Richard Griffiths
08/08/2011 … BBC One is piloting a primetime sitcom about a middle-aged gay couple.
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