ITV brings back variety
13/08/2008 … ITV1 is to showcase stand-ups as part of a new flagship variety show.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 13 August 2008
© BBC Good Life writer dies
13/08/2008 … Writer John Esmonde, co-creator of The Good Life, has died at the age of 71.
Tue 12 August 2008
© C4 America finally gets IT
12/08/2008 … The original British series of The IT Crowd, Modern Toss and Look Around You have all been sold to America.
Godley named funniest woman
12/08/2008 … Janey Godley has been named the funniest woman on the Fringe, winning £1,000 in the process.
© DreamWorks Call to ban Stiller's comedy
Film upsets the mentally disabled
12/08/2008 … Campaigners are calling for a boycott of Ben Stiller's latest comedy movie Tropic Thunder because it uses ‘retard’ as a joke insult.
© BBC Bill Cotton dies
BBC chief oversaw comedy's 'golden age'
12/08/2008 … Sir Bill Cotton, the BBC executive who oversaw the likes of the Two Ronnies, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Morecambe and Wise in their heyday, has died at the…
Mon 11 August 2008
© Touchstone Pictures Stable mates
Nativity comedy for Freeman & Jensen
11/08/2008 … Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen are to star in a semi-improvised comedy film about rival school nativity plays.
We swear it's a mistake...
Paramount Comedy apologises over F-word
11/08/2008 … Paramount Comedy has apologised after broadcasting bad language in a Nathan Caton sketch in the middle of the afternoon.