Russell Peters to play the UK
17/01/2018 … Russell Peters is to play three UK dates this spring as part of his Deported World Tour.
2018 Archives
Wed 17 January 2018
Ivo Graham and Emma Sidi in Climaxed
New series of post-coital comedy sketches
17/01/2018 … Ivo Graham and Emma Sidi star in the first of the new series of BBC Three sketch series Climaxed.
We liked our jobs, say Fringe workers
According to survey in response to union fears of exploitation
17/01/2018 … More than 80 per cent of people who worked at the Edinburgh Fringe were satisfied with their experience.
Comedy Central orders more Your Face Or Mine
Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan to return
17/01/2018 … Comedy Central has commissioned two more series of its game show Your Face or Mine.
Another series? Tick
Amazon renews Peter Serafinowicz's superhero comedy
17/01/2018 … Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of the comedy superhero series The Tick, starring Peter Serafinowicz in the title role.
'It made me fall in love with being a comedian again'
Jarlath Regan picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
17/01/2018 … Jarlath Regan kicks off a UK tour of his show Organ Freeman – about donating a kidney to his brother – at London's Leicester Square Theatre…
© Andrew Hurley/CC BY-SA 2.0 Jason Donovan replaces Christopher Biggins
Last-minute stand-in at Slapstick festival
17/01/2018 … Jason Donovan is to appear at this month’s Slapstick festival of vintage comedy.
West End transfer for Good Girl
Naomi Sheldon’s comic Edinburgh hit hits London
17/01/2018 … Naomi Sheldon’s semi-comic monologue Good Girl is to make its West End debut.