© Just For Laughs Just For Laughs pulls its Toronto comedy festival
Covid-19 'leaves us with no alternative'
07/07/2020 … Just For Laughs have pulled this year's JFL42 comedy festival due to be held in Toronto.
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Bill Bailey and Jason Manford to play first socially-distanced arena
Newcastle Racecourse becomes a festival site
07/07/2020 … Jason Manford and Bill Bailey are to be the first comedians to play what’s being billed as the first socially distanced live music arena.
© Netflix John Mulaney to make two more Sack Lunch Bunch specials
Moving from Netflix to Comedy Central
07/07/2020 … America's Comedy Central has signed up stand-up John Mulaney to produce two more of his Sack Lunch Bunch children's musical comedy specials.
Book deal for Gary Delaney
Collection of one-liners out this autumn
07/07/2020 … Gary Delaney has signed a deal to publish some of his best one-liners in a new joke book.
Mon 06 July 2020
Chris and Rosie Ramsey reschedule podcast tour
Shagged. Married. Annoyed now hits the road in 2021
06/07/2020 … Chris and Rosie Ramsey have rescheduled their live Shagged.
© Suzy Hazelwood/Pexels Revealed: Just how hard coronavirus has hit the entertainment business
Seven in ten workers furloughed
06/07/2020 … The full impact of the lockdown on the live arts and entertainment scene has been revealed in new research.
Funny Women announce more awards longlists
06/07/2020 … Funny Women have revealed the longlists for their comedy writing and comedy shorts awards.
© Richard Goldschmidt/CC BY-SA 3.0 Netflix funds £500,000 lockdown lifeline
Comedians eligible for £1,000 emergency grants
06/07/2020 … Netflix has donated £500,000 to give emergency help to comedians, actors and offstage workers left without an income during lockdown.