'Utterly shameless'
John Cleese hits out at unofficial Fawlty Towers show
23/03/2016 … John Cleese is threatening to sue the theatre company behind the Faulty Towers Dining Experience for ripping off his characters.
2016 Archives
Wed 23 March 2016
BBC launches 2016 New Comedy Award
23/03/2016 … Entries have opened for this year's BBC New Comedy Award.
Tue 22 March 2016
Chortle Award 2016 winners named
Triple victory for Joseph Morpurgo
22/03/2016 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer were honoured with an award for outstanding contribution to comedy at the Chortle Awards tonight.
Marlon Wayans to perform in the UK
22/03/2016 … Marlon Wayans is to make his London stand-up debut.
Russell Kane joins Virgin Radio
...promising 'controlled mayhem'
22/03/2016 … Russell Kane is to host a weekly show on the soon-to-be relaunched Virgin Radio.
I Live With Models gets a second series
22/03/2016 … Comedy Central is to make a second series of I Live With Models.
Comedy writers up for Baftas
22/03/2016 … The writers of Peep Show, Hunderby, Catastrophe and Peter Kay’s Car Share have been shortlisted for a Bafta award.
Terminally ill comic lands HBO special
22/03/2016 … A young comedian with incurable cancer has been given his dream – an HBO special – thanks to Ellen DeGeneres.