All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Longest-running new act final bolsters its prize package, too
07/01/2022 … Entries have opened for this year’s So You Think You’re Funny? – the 34th year of comedy’s longest-running new act competition.
...alongside Morgana Robinson in a show he also wrote
07/01/2022 … Dylan Moran and Morgana Robinson are to star in a new BBC sitcom about a couple in a stagnant relationship.
© BBC NI show based in a GAA sports and social club
06/01/2022 … The BBC has ordered new comedy from Northern Irish double act Grimes and McKee.
© Channel 4 Comic pays up after messing up on I Literally Just Told You
06/01/2022 … Jimmy Carr had to pay £18,000 to a contestant on I Literally Just Told You weeks after recording – after making a mistake with…
...even though he's very much alive
05/01/2022 … Physical comedian Luke Rollason has set up a bursary dedicated to his own memory… even though he is very much alive.
Casting coup for Matt Berry's comedy
04/01/2022 … Larry David made a surprise guest appearance in the new series of Toast Of Tinseltown tonight, to the delight of fans.
© BBC/Monumental Television Cast returning to Button House
04/01/2022 … Production has started on the fourth series of Ghosts.
600 London shows axed over Omicron fears
04/01/2022 … London’s Vault festival has been cancelled because of Covid.
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