All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
To give a new queer, working-class Northern comic their first taste of the Edinburgh Fringe
16/04/2025 … A new award for up-and-coming comedians has been set up in memory of Marie Goulbourne, the stand-up who died last October just days after winning her BBC New Comedy…
16/04/2025 … Jimmy Carr is to host a new Comedy Central panel show in which comedians pass judgment on the morals of members of the public.
Most outstanding show and best newcomer shortlists announced
16/04/2025 … Ahir Shah, Flo And Joan’s One Man Musical and Olga Koch are among the nominees for the top award for live comedy in Australia.
© Richard Kendal Returning to the show for the first time in a decade
15/04/2025 … Sue Perkins is to host Have I Got News For You for the first time in a decade.
Playing deaf Mrs Richards on stage
15/04/2025 … Helen Lederer is joining the cast of the Fawlty Towers play when it returns to the West End this summer.
Well, he has played a turncoat on Ted Lasso
15/04/2025 … Nick Mohammed has reportedly signed up to appear on the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors.
Queenslander takes Australia's First Nations comedy title
15/04/2025 … Dhinawan Baker has won this year's Deadly Funny title for First Nations comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
John Lithgow and Paapa Essiedu too
14/04/2025 … Paul Whitehouse is to play Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the new TV adaption of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, it has been announced.
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