BBC launches 'millennial relationship' comedy
24/02/2017 … BBC Three is releasing a new short-form comedy series about a relationship between two millennials.
Fri 24 February 2017
Oldie but goodie...
Pete Teckman wins Leicester's Silver Stand-up contest
24/02/2017 … Pete Teckman was last night crowned Silver Stand-Up of the Year in a competition for older comedians.
Thu 23 February 2017
Sky's Mount Pleasant to end
Filming starts on 90-minute finale
23/02/2017 … Sky 1 comedy Mount Pleasant is to end after six years.
Simon Amstell announces 2017 tour
What Is This? described as a 'deeply personal' show
23/02/2017 … Simon Amstell has announced his fifth stand-up tour of the UK.
© Channel 4 Television Gap Year
23/02/2017 … If you didn’t know the people behind Gap Year, E4’s new comedy about students backpacking around East Asia, you might expect a broad parody of some upper-class…
Joke 'is not to be taken seriously'
BBC's response to complaint against 'anti-Liverpool' gag
23/02/2017 … The BBC Trust has declined to intervene after a viewer complained about an anti-Liverpool joke on Have I Got News For You.
© BBC/Objective BBC Three gets even more Witless
Third series for gangland comedy
23/02/2017 … BBC Three has commissioned a third and apparently final series of its comedy Witless.
© Crosscut Media Comedy's lost its underground spirit
So says Barbara Nice creator Janice Connolly
23/02/2017 … Live comedy has lost much of its anarchic, punk spirit and become more ‘corporate’.