© UKTV Taskmaster back for another New Year special
Studio audience tickets now available
04/11/2022 … Taskmaster is to return to Channel 4 for another special new year episode.
Latest News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 04 November 2022
© UKTV 
Brian and Charles up for film awards
...as is Katy Brand for Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
04/11/2022 … Brian and Charles – the quirky mockmentary based around David Earl’s alter-ego Brian Gittins – has been nominated in two categories of the British…
UK comedies up for 2022's Rose d'Or awards
Celebrating the best of international TV
04/11/2022 … Bloods and Toast of Tinseltown have been nominated for this year’ prestigious Rose d’Or international TV award for best comedy.
Thu 03 November 2022
Crisis? What cost-of-living crisis?
Dave Chappelle announces London gig, with tickets at £173
03/11/2022 … Dave Chappelle has announced a last-minute intimate show in London tomorrow night – with tickets priced £173.
© Nick Rutter Rob Brydon joins Amazon Prime's My Lady Jane
Historical comedy series now being filmed in London
03/11/2022 … Rob Brydon has joined the cast of historical comedy series My Lady Jane, about Britain’s shortest-serving monarch.
BBC hits back at Have I Got News For You critics
Blind comic Jamie McDonald didn't want format changed, so he could make jokes about it
03/11/2022 … The BBC has responded to critics who complained that Have I Got News For You should have been made more accessible for blind comedian Jamie MacDonald when he…
Clive Anderson, peace negotiator
...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.
Wed 02 November 2022
© World Affairs Council of Philadelphia/CC BY-SA 2.0 ITV buys Bill Cosby documentary
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.