Is satirising the Royal Family under threat?
23/09/2021 … The US adult animated satire, The Prince, has sparked outrage for its portrayal of the British royal family as a mob of hyper-privileged halfwits, hopelessly out…
2021 Archives
Thu 23 September 2021
© BBC/Merman Motherland up for an international Emmy
23/09/2021 … Motherland has been nominated for an international Emmy.
Newcastle named BBC's city of comedy
String of events planned for the North East
23/09/2021 … The BBC has announced that Newcastle-upon-Tyne will be its first ‘city of comedy’.
© Michael Wharley Phil Nichol and Daliso Chaponda star in their first pantos
As Dame Granny Hood and Wishee Washee respectively
23/09/2021 … Phil Nichol and Daliso Chaponda are to star in their first pantos this Christmas, Nichol will be playing the Dame, Granny Hood, in the production of…
Sex... with puppets
Comics star in new Netflix special about sexualuty
23/09/2021 … Katherine Ryan, London Hughes, Romesh Ranganathan and Mae Martin are taking part in a new Netflix puppet show… about sex.
© C4 Derry Girls to come to an end
Series 3 will be the last, C4 confirms
23/09/2021 … Derry Girls is to end after its upcoming series, Channel 4 has confirmed.
Wed 22 September 2021
© BBC Last Of The Summer Wine actor Robert Fyfe dies at 90
Known as henpecked Howard Sibshaw
22/09/2021 … Robert Fyfe, who played Howard Sibshaw in Last of the Summer Wine for 25 years, has died at the age of 90.
Watch the 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award Final
All the videos from the big night
22/09/2021 … Watch all the finalists in the 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award, held at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London on Monday and filmed by comedy streaming service NextUp.