All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© C4 Star cast in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
12/01/2022 … Richard Ayoade has reportedly joined the cast of the Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
More acclaim for Ted Lasso role
12/01/2022 … Brett Goldstein has been nominated for a Screen Actors’ Guild Award in the US for his role in Ted Lasso.
© BBC International showdown on BBC Three next month
12/01/2022 … Daisy May Cooper has joined the judging panel for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World.
Nightclub Comedian is platform's first stand-up show of 2022
12/01/2022 … Netflix has announced a new stand-up special from Aziz Ansari.
© BBC Actor famed as stick-in-the-mud councillor David Horton
11/01/2022 … Actor Gary Waldhorn, who starred as Councillor David Horton in TV sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, has died at 78.
Stand-up special and documentary
11/01/2022 … Comic Leroy Brito has been commissioned to make two programmes for BBC Radio Wales – a stand-up special and a documentary about his life as a single father.
11/01/2022 … Kerry Godliman, Suzi Ruffell, Lou Sanders, Alex Brooker and Phil Wang are all showing off their cooking skills in a new digital series for Channel 4.
© Avalon/BBC BBC sets channel's comeback date
11/01/2022 … BBC Three will relaunch as a broadcast channel on Tuesday February 1, the corporation has announced.
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