Sky to launch a channel dedicated to US comedies
Including Curb and John Oliver
21/08/2019 … Sky is to launch a new channel dedicated only to US comedy shows.
Wed 21 August 2019
C4 orders a sitcom about a female Muslim punk band
Lady Parts picked up following a Comedy Blap
21/08/2019 … Channel 4 is making a comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band.
Tue 20 August 2019
© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comedians to star in new Amazon entertainment show
Rebel Wilson to host the company's first Australian commission
20/08/2019 … Amazon is launching its first original programming in Australia: a TV comedy competition with a £55,000 first prize.
Home again
Channel 4 renews Rufus Jones's asylum-seeker comedy
20/08/2019 … Rufus Jones's asylum seeker sitcom Home is returning for a second series, Chortle can reveal.
That vegetable joke isn't fresh!
Noel James had been using the award-winning gag long before Olaf Falafel
20/08/2019 … The Dave Joke Of The Fringe competition is facing a new controversy, after it emerged that Olaf Falafel was not the first to crack it.
© James Deacon Goodbear: Dougal
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
20/08/2019 … One of my favourites this year, Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment have created an outstanding sketch show that slinks along, morphing from one thing to another so seamlessly…
Michael Odewale: #BlackBearsMatter
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
20/08/2019 … One of the more anticipated debuts of this Fringe is by Michael Odewale, who bagged the nest new show title at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Jen Brister: Under Privilege
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
20/08/2019 … This is a phenomenal display of sinewy stand-up performance.