All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
...and that's even before taking into account the impending mega-tour
24/11/2022 … Peter Kay is about to swell his coffers with a massive arena tour stretching into 2025 – but he certainly doesn’t need the money.
© BBC Victory hot on the heels of his triumph in the BBC New Comedy Awards
24/11/2022 … Dan Tiernan has been named the British Comedian Of The Year, scooping a £10,001 prize.
Despite protests after Edinburgh festival did the same
23/11/2022 … The Brighton Fringe is ditching its app next year – despite the furore sparked when the Edinburgh Fringe made the same move.
© Grossman Burn Center Comic spent ten days in hospital after garage blaze
23/11/2022 … American comedian Jay Leno has been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for burns he suffered in a blaze at his California garage.
Eleven dates for Man Like Mobeen creator and Taskmaster contestant
23/11/2022 … Guz Khan has announced a short UK tour for early next year.
His partner Roxy Horner has the condition
23/11/2022 … Jack Whitehall is to host a major benefit gig in aid of Diabetes UK, after his girlfriend Roxy Horner was diagnosed with the condition.
© Eugene Lee Percival Everett takes the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse title
23/11/2022 … Percival Everett has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with his novel The Trees.
© ITV Comic says the show was 'hardcore' and 'intense'
23/11/2022 … Babatunde Aleshe last night became a fifth contestant to be voted out of the I'm A Celebrity jungle.
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