BBC Comedy Festival 2023: Stand-up showcase
Review of the opening night gig at the Glee, Cardiff
25/05/2023 … It’s surely not the most conducive of audiences, packed with industry types notoriously reticent when it comes to laughing out loud.
2023 Archives
Thu 25 May 2023
BBC Comedy launches regional partnership scheme for Wales
25/05/2023 … BBC Comedy has launched a second regional partnership scheme, this time in Wales, to encourage local talent.
Sitcom Geeks podcast to end
Dave Cohen and James Cary call time after eight years and 222 episods
25/05/2023 … Sitcom Geeks, the podcast for comedy writers, is to end after eight years.
Hotly-tipped comic talents get a BBC break
Broadcaster announces its Comedy Collective bursary winners
25/05/2023 … The BBC has today named ten promising comedy creatives to receive a ‘supercharged’ bursary to boost their work.
© Amazon Studios Amazon announces comics for LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland
Including Aisling Bea, Deirdre O'Kane, Jason Byrne and Catherine Bohar
25/05/2023 … Aisling Bea, Jason Byrne and Catherine Bohart are among the comedians taking part in reality format LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland.
Meet the UK's funniest class of 2023
Beano reveals the top ten jokes
25/05/2023 … A Nottinghamshire school has been named the UK’s funniest class by Beano comic, thanks to their joke: ‘What happened to the math teacher’s garden?…
Wed 24 May 2023
© BBC Give us a (tax) break, says BBC's 'chief corporate clown'
Director of comedy Jon Petrie calls for HMRC help for the genre
24/05/2023 … BBC Director of Comedy Jon Petrie has called for tax relief for producers making TV comedy.
© BBC BBC orders Dinosaur, with Ashley Storrie as an autistic woman
Six episodes following a successful pilot last year
24/05/2023 … The BBC has ordered a full series of Dinosaur, the sitcom starring stand-up Ashley Storrie as an autistic woman in her 30s whose life is turned upside-down when…