All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Netflix Seems journalists like the stand-up special more than they admit in print...
08/01/2024 … Many critics have slated it, but Ricky Gervais’s Armageddon has won the first Golden Globe for best stand-up special.
Other awards for Barry Dodds, Tony Allen, Andy Smart and Gareth Richards
08/01/2024 … Andrew Bird has been named the comics’ comic of 2023.
Star says Spreadsheet is unlikely to return
08/01/2024 … Katherine Parkinson’s Channel 4 comedy Spreadsheet has been axed after one series, the actress says.
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
07/01/2024 … The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand.
Rhod Gillbert and Miles Jupp tour after their health issues
07/01/2024 … The week's best live comedy.
...at least that's what one US arbitrator has decided
06/01/2024 … A journalist who was fired when his bosses found out he was a part-time stand-up comic must be given his job back, arbitrators have ruled.
Episodes re-recorded for audio by the two-man cast of live stage show
05/01/2024 … Three new audio versions of classic Dad’s Army episodes are to be released next week.
ITVX orders another 52 cartoon episodes of Rowan Atkinson's character
04/01/2024 … Rowan Atkinson is to voice another 52 episodes of the animated version of Mr Bean.
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