All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Greengo8cat/CC BY-SA 4.0 Comedian, improviser and impressionist suffers fatal heart attack
03/11/2020 … John Sessions, who came to prominence as an improviser on Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the 1980s has died at the age of 67.
Satirical movie from ex-South Park writer Jane Bussmann
03/11/2020 … Borat 2’s unexpected star Jeanise Jones is to play an angel in a new satirical film.
..says Britain’s Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid
03/11/2020 … Britain’s comedy circuit has a racist bias that keeps black comedians down, Britain’s Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid claims.
New comic wins Manchester contest
03/11/2020 … Dan Tiernan, who works in a care home for young asylum seekers, has won the annual new act competition run by Manchester’s Frog and Bucket.
'The most beautiful object I think we have ever produced'
02/11/2020 … The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp’s cult live show which retold a classic horror movie through Elvis Presley-style songs, is to be released on VHS.
© UKTV Gold commissions new series from writer Jason Cook
02/11/2020 … Sian Gibson and Johnny Vegas are to reprise their crime-solving roles for a new series of murder-mystery films for Gold.
...after repeating a season of the old ones
02/11/2020 … Radio 4 has commissioned another Count Arthur Strong Christmas special.
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
01/11/2020 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio Monday November 2 STAND UP FOR LIVE COMEDY: The last in the series comes from London, with Jamali Maddix…
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