All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© UNclimatechange/CC BY-SA 2.0 About soldiers who become celebrities after they are taken hostage
29/09/2022 … Sean Penn is to star in a new ITV comedy about a group of soldiers taken hostage.
© BBC Sequel to its 2013 family comedy
29/09/2022 … The BBC is to adapt David Walliams’s children’s book Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! for TV.
Mo Gilligan's stand-up showcase recorded at The O2
29/09/2022 … Channel 4 is to air the live stand-up comedy showcase Mo Gilligan + Friends: The Black British Takeover which was filmed at The O2 in London last December.
Safe Space with comedy writer James Serafinowicz
29/09/2022 … Jack Whitehall is to host his first ever podcast, all about awkward moments and embarrassment.
© Sky Kids New animated show for Sky Kids
28/09/2022 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to voice a cute monster in a new animated Halloween show for Sky Kids.
© BBC Comic tells Richard Herring 'I'm not well' following new hospital stay
28/09/2022 … Bob Mortimer has had another health scare, revealing that he ended up in hospital at the weekend.
Feedback exercise following festival criticisms
28/09/2022 … Organisers of the Edinburgh Fringe are embarking on their biggest survey of participants ‘in years’ in the face of increasing concern about the cost…
© UKTV Set in the aftermath of an alien invasion
28/09/2022 … Here are the first pictures from Dave’s new scripted comedy We Are Not Alone.
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