Omicron halts National Comedy Awards
Channel 4 postpones next week's ceremony amid growing Covid fears
07/12/2021 … Channel 4 have called off the National Comedy Awards due to be held next week – because of the Omicron variant of Covid.
2021 Archives
Tue 07 December 2021
Megan Stalter at the Soho Theatre
Review of the US comic's UK debut
07/12/2021 … Megan Stalter is a product of social media, and not just because that’s where she found her audience.
Dave to pilot four new comedy shows
All chosen via a competition seeking diverse new writers
07/12/2021 … Four comedy pilots are to be shot for the Dave channel, thanks to a new writing competition.
© Adam Johnson/Slapstick Barry Cryer to launch a podcast
Comedy legend to interview fellow stars
07/12/2021 … Barry Cryer is launching his own podcast, at the age of 86.
© Matt Holyoak ‘It's easier to be politically correct when you're not trying to make 2,000 people laugh'
Jimmy Carr on offence in comedy
07/12/2021 … Jimmy Carr says it’s hard to be politically correct if you’re trying to entertain large audiences Defending his near-the-knuckle jokes, the comic…
Comics up for 2022 Writers' Guild awards
TV, radio and online nominees announced
07/12/2021 … Mae Martin, Sarah Kendall and Aisling Bea are all up for the Writers’ Guild award for best sitcom this year.
© Liz West/CC BY-SA 2.0 Revealed: The top topical Christmas cracker jokes of 2021
Gold competition winners announced
07/12/2021 … A joke about the rising cost of fuel has won the annual competition for the best topical Christmas cracker gags…
Mon 06 December 2021
AP Bio cancelled
Fourth series of US comedy will be the last
06/12/2021 … AP Bio – the US comedy series about a Harvard philosophy professor who returns to his home town to teach – has been cancelled.