© Adam Johnson/Slapstick Barry Cryer to launch a podcast
Comedy legend to interview fellow stars
07/12/2021 … Barry Cryer is launching his own podcast, at the age of 86.
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Tue 07 December 2021
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Comics up for 2022 Writers' Guild awards
TV, radio and online nominees announced
07/12/2021 … Mae Martin, Sarah Kendall and Aisling Bea are all up for the Writers’ Guild award for best sitcom this year.
Mon 06 December 2021
AP Bio cancelled
Fourth series of US comedy will be the last
06/12/2021 … AP Bio – the US comedy series about a Harvard philosophy professor who returns to his home town to teach – has been cancelled.
Brits lined up for mammoth Netflix comedy festival
130 of the world's top acts in LA extravaganza
06/12/2021 … Netflix has announced the mammoth line-up for its delayed, star-studded comedy festival.
Together again! French and Saunders record a new podcast episode
Festive special out this month
06/12/2021 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to reunite for a new Christmas episode of their podcast Titting About.
Teaser image for Channel 4's The Curse
1980s comedy crime caper coming next year
06/12/2021 … Channel 4 has released some poster-style artwork for its new crime comedy caper The Curse.
© C4 Johnny Vegas breaks into snow business
Comic in snowman-building contest
06/12/2021 … Johnny Vegas is to create some gargantuan snow sculptures for Channel 4’s latest reality challenge.
Sun 05 December 2021
© BBC/Open Mike Scott Bennett named best comedian in the Midlands... again
Midlands Comedy Awards results announced
05/12/2021 … Scott Bennett has been named best act in the Midlands Comedy Awards for the third year in a row.