All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Ryan Lash / TED Security concerns amid Israel-Hamas war
19/10/2023 … Anglo-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili has had to pull out of a gig tonight because of ‘personal threats due to the situation in Israel’.
Have A Word founder launches a new format
19/10/2023 … He rewrote the rules of the comedy industry with the Have A Word podcast.
© Netflix Behind the scenes of the friends' stand-up tour
19/10/2023 … Netflix is to air a behind-the-scenes documentary about Kevin Hart and Chris Rock’s joint stand-up shows.
New dates for controversial comic
19/10/2023 … Jerry Sadowitz has announced a tour of Scotland for next year.
© BBC Studios As Paul Ready and Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard join cast
19/10/2023 … Filming has started on the third series of Diane Morgan’s Mandy with the comedian’s disinterested alter-ego embarking on a new catalogue of short-lived,…
Glacier - about wild swimming at Christmas - to open in December
18/10/2023 … Alison Spittle has written her second play, about three women going wild swimming.
© BBC Alongside Jason Manford and Chris Ramsey
18/10/2023 … Am I Being Unreasonable? star Lenny Rush has joined the presenting team of BBC Children in Need.
© Channel 4 / Alistair Heap Sue Johnston, Anita Dobson, Robert Lindsay, and Johnny Vegas
18/10/2023 … Sue Johnston, Anita Dobson, Robert Lindsay, and Johnny Vegas are to star in Channel 4’s new darkly comic zombie apocalypse series Generation Z,…
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