Louise Atkinson wins at Leicester Comedy Festival
Hull stand-up scoops Comedian of the Year title
23/02/2025 … Louise Atkinson has won Leicester Comedy Festival’s Comedian of the Year 2025 award.
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Sun 23 February 2025
© Netflix Baby Reindeer wins three Spirit Awards
Richard Gadd: 'I never thought it would be watched my this many people'
23/02/2025 … Baby Reindeer won three prizes at last night’s Spirit Awards for independent TV and film, held in Santa Monica, California.
Fri 21 February 2025
Dom Joly's massive phone is stolen
Prop goes missing from Dutch museum
21/02/2025 … The giant mobile phone Dom Joly used in Trigger Happy TV has been stolen from an Amsterdam museum.
Richard Ayoade adapts his Unfinished Harauld Hughes novel for TV
Possible comedy series about the fictional, prickly playwright
21/02/2025 … Richard Ayoade is adapting his novel, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes into a possible TV comedy series.
© BBC/Two Brothers How comedy makes British shows popular abroad
Humour's often missing from other country's shows, researchers found
21/02/2025 … Britain’s sense of humour is driving a surge in the popularity of UK content among young viewers across Europe, new research has found.
Fashion Loves Comedy returns
Comics take to the catwalk again
21/02/2025 … Rosie Jones, Shazia Mirza, Katie Norris, and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are to take to the the catwalk in a series of fundraising gigs.
Thu 20 February 2025
Comic claims 50-hour longest stand-up record
Just days before another stand-up attempts the same feat
20/02/2025 … A Nigerian comedian is claiming a world record for the longest stand-up gig – a week before one of his countrymen was due to attempt the same thing.
© BBC BBC's Imagine to profile Armando Iannucci
Contributors include Chris Morris, Steve Coogan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
20/02/2025 … Armando Iannucci is to be profiled by the BBC’s prestigious arts series Imagine The influential comedy showrunner has been interviewed …