Wells Comedy Festival to return in 2024
08/11/2023 … The Wells Comedy Festival will return for an eighth year in 2024, organisers have announced.
2023 Archives
Wed 08 November 2023
© Oliver Bowring of Musicarta Media Brian Cox revives Bob Servant for one last time
Succession star back as the third most successful cheeseburger van operator in Dundee
08/11/2023 … Succession star Brian Cox is going from global media tycoon back to cheeseburger van owner as he reprises his role of comedy character Bob Servant for the last time.
© Gary Moyes / BBC Aisling Bea joins Romesh Ranganathan's Avoidance
...as does the comic's own son Alex
08/11/2023 … Aisling Bea has joined the cast of Romesh Ranganathan’s BBC One comedy Avoidance, as filming starts on the second series.
Tue 07 November 2023
© ITV plc How much do you know about Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?
Try our Tuesday trivia quiz to mark 40 years of the comedy-drama
07/11/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
BBC New Comedy Award 2023 final
07/11/2023 … A recurring tongue-in-cheek complaint that's heard increasingly at new act competitions is that comedy is now full to bursting, with established acts wishing…
Beat The Frog World Series Final 2023
Review of the climax of the new act competition
07/11/2023 … Often new act competitions have a clear winner – a stand-out star-in-the-making, clearly head-and-shoulders above their contemporaries, however talented.
Sikisa announces UK tour
Dates for her Hear Me Out stand-up show in 2024
07/11/2023 … Sikisa is to take her second stand-up show, Hear Me Out, on a short UK tour next year.
© ITVX / Golden Path Productions ITV confirms the cast of G'wed
Liverpool-based comedy launching in 2024
07/11/2023 … ITV has announced the cast for its upcoming comedy G’wed which will drop on its ITVX streaming service in early 2024.