No live audience for Radio 4 comedies
And fans sent home from Celebrity Juice taping
17/03/2020 … Topical radio comedies The Now Show and Newsjack are to be taped without a studio audience this week.
Tue 17 March 2020
Coronavirus update: March 17
Today's cancellations in brief
17/03/2020 … Nick Helm has postponed his upcoming Phoenix from the Flames tour.
Despite it all, more Edinburgh Fringe shows go on sale
Including Simon Amstell, Jason Manford and Reginald D Hunter
17/03/2020 … It may not be the right time to be thinking of it – but a new tranche of shows have just gone on sale for this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Coronavirus lockdown? Here's where you can still watch stand-up comedy
...and support the comics making it
17/03/2020 … Although the world's on lockdown – and live comedy on an indefinite hiatus – no one need be without stand-up.
An interview with Covid-19
17/03/2020 … Here’s the first exclusive interview with Covid-19.
© Gareth James/CC BY-SA 2.0 Machynlleth Comedy Festival cancelled
Coronavirus lockdown claims popular event
17/03/2020 … The Machynlleth Comedy Festival has been cancelled because of the ongoing coronavirus.
'I can take apart and put together a 9mm pistol in under seven seconds'
Mel and Sue on their new Sky comedy, Hitmen
17/03/2020 … In Sky’s new comedy, Hitmen, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc play misfits Fran and Jamie who accidentally stumbled into a career in contract killing.
Mon 16 March 2020
Sketch Off! Final 2020
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Square Theatre, London
16/03/2020 … For a sketch comedy competition, there weren’t a lot of sketch groups.