All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
...in a new play from a real diplomat, and the co-creator of Mock The Week
03/11/2022 … Clive Anderson is to play an international peace negotiator in a new comedy written by the co-creator of Mock The Week and a former ambassador.
© World Affairs Council of Philadelphia/CC BY-SA 2.0 Based on the memoirs of the woman who brought him down
02/11/2022 … ITV has bought the rights to air a new documentary about Bill Cosby’s crimes for its new streaming service ITVX.
© C4/Avalon 02/11/2022 … Channel 4 has confirmed an air date for Alex Horne’s Horne Section TV Show.
Part of a major project to create new venues
02/11/2022 … Hot Water Comedy Club has cleared a major hurdle to open a major new music and stand-up venue in its Liverpool home town.
Stars to describe landmarks to blind comedian
02/11/2022 … Harry Hill, Tom Allen, Guz Khan and Liza Tarbuck are to take part in Chris McCausland’s new travel series, Chortle can reveal.
© Endemol Shine UK Lap Of Shame to play 52 venues
02/11/2022 … Frankie Boyle has announced a major new tour for 2023.
Kieran Hodgson’s How We Forgot To Save The Planet scoops top TV award
01/11/2022 … Kieran Hodgson’s How We Forgot To Save The Planet has been named best comedy at this year’s Royal Television Socierty Scotland awards.
Another storm engulfs talk-show host
01/11/2022 … James Corden has admitted he ‘inadvertently’ stole a Ricky Gervais joke on his US chat show.
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