Best in Class 2023 line-up announced
Scheme promotes working-class comics
10/02/2023 … The line-up for Best in Class 2023 – the showcase championing working-class comedians has been announced.
Fri 10 February 2023
© BBC James Norton joins Jerk
Happy Valley star to appear in Tim Renkow’s sitcom
10/02/2023 … Happy Valley star James Norton is to make a guest appearance in the next series of Tim Renkow’s BBC comedy Jerk.
Goodbye comedy, I won't miss all of you self-censoring wimps
Samantha Pressdee says she's leaving stand-up 'to find a husband with balls'
10/02/2023 … I’m leaving live comedy to find a husband (with balls)! As a single woman looking for love, I thought I would meet lots of sexy funny men on the live comedy…
© BBC/Euston Films American gets Wreck
Hulu buys BBC Three horror-comedy series
10/02/2023 … BBC Three comedy-horror Wreck is heading to the US.
New Fawlty Towers to be set in a high-end Caribbean hotel
10/02/2023 … The Fawlty Towers reboot is likely to be set on an elite Caribbean island, John Cleese has revealed.
Brett Goldstein on British slang
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
10/02/2023 … Brett Goldstein introduced Americans to some British slang on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night.
Joe Lycett to host a live Friday night C4 show
...from the canals of his beloved Birmingham
10/02/2023 … Joe Lycett is to host a new weekly Friday night comedy show live from his Birmingham hometown.
Thu 09 February 2023
Catherine Cohen: Come For Me
Review of the new tour from Edinburgh best newcomer and Netflix star
09/02/2023 … With her superb debut, The Twist Is… She’s Gorgeous, Catherine Cohen brilliantly exposed the opposing forces of vanity and insecurity that define the…