If you made Red Dwarf these days...
23/06/2023 … Tweets of the week just want to get rich enough that people laugh when I die — Bobby Mair (@BobbyMair) June 22, 2023 If I were a billionaire stuck…
Fri 23 June 2023
Jena Friedman: Not Funny
Book review of her 'Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Etcetera'
23/06/2023 … Like most women in comedy, American stand-up Jena Friedman tires of the ‘inane, distracting and sexist’ journalists’ question: What’s it…
MP shocked by online abuse
23/06/2023 … An MP has spoken out against online abuse – after finding herself on the receiving end.
Thu 22 June 2023
Entries open for British Comedian Of The Year 2023
Biggest prize in comedy with £10,001 up for grabs
22/06/2023 … Applications have opened for the 2023 British Comedian Of The Year competition.
© ITV Ruby Speaking
Review of ITVX's latest comedy, starring Jayde Adams
22/06/2023 … Last week Catherine Tate introduced us to one of the most unlikeable central characters in a comedy show in Queen Of Oz.
John Kearns: The Varnishing Days
Review of the Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner's latest show
22/06/2023 … The thing about appearing on Taskmaster, John Kearns notes, is that ‘ticket sales go up… but the laughs, they go down.
BBC orders comedy-drama from disability activist Kyla Harris
We Might Regret This also stars Darren Boyd and Sally Phillips
22/06/2023 … The BBC has ordered a comedy-drama about a Canadian quadriplegic moving to London.
© BBC/Hat Trick Clive Myrie dropped from BBC News after hosting Have I Got News For You
Corporation chief feared impartiality backlash
22/06/2023 … The BBC reportedly banned Clive Myrie from presenting News At Ten on Friday because he hosted Have I Got News For You an hour beforehand.