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.
Thu 23 February 2017
© 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’.
BBC to tell of Cosby's fall
New documentary ahead of comic's trial
23/02/2017 … The BBC is making an hour-long documentary about Bill Cosby’s fall from grace.
Wed 22 February 2017
Louis CK to release two new stand-up specials
22/02/2017 … Louis CK has signed a deal to release two new stand-up specials on Netflix.
© Shaun Webb Berry, Bird, Rosenthal and more
Comedy stars line up for West End play directed by Simon Callow
22/02/2017 … Friday Night Dinner co-stars Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal are to star in a new West End play together.
© BBC/King Bert Walliams & Friend to return
...as his book Ratburger comes to Sky1
22/02/2017 … Walliams & Friend is to return for a second series.