All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Marc Brenner ...and it's all Rishi Sunak's fault
28/06/2024 … A planned tour of Armando Iannucci’s satire of the government’s Covid response has been axed because of the general election.
© Ray Burmiston 27/06/2024 … Ricky Gervais has announced the title of his next world tour and Netflix special: Mortality.
Pleasantly Disturbed set in his native Nottinghamshire
27/06/2024 … TV comedy writer Lee Stuart Evans has penned a comedy novel about two aspiring musicians in his native Nottinghamshire.
Go Away! revolves around a pot-growing deadbeat
27/06/2024 … Paddington's Hugh Bonneville and This Is England’s Michael Socha are to star in a dark crime comedy film called Go Away! According to…
Bridgerton-style parody featuring his Regency-era fop
27/06/2024 … The aristocratic Regency-era alter-ego of comedian Christian Brighty is to star in his own Radio 4 comedy.
Inspired by his dislike of audience participation
26/06/2024 … Daniel Kitson has announced a London run of his latest show, Collaborator this summer.
© BBC Watch their swear-free remake here
26/06/2024 … Armando Iannucci has spoken of how the Americas ruined The Thick Of It - exorcising all the swearing and making a ‘really boring’ version of his political…
London musical comedy bids farewell to the PM
26/06/2024 … Rishi Sunak is getting a satirical stage send-off – with a new stage musical dedicated to the soon-to-be-ex-Prime Minister.
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