Skinner makes Question Time debut
30/04/2009 … Frank Skinner is to make his debut appearance on BBC One's Question Time tonight.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 30 April 2009
Wed 29 April 2009
© ITV Jim Davidson back on TV
Putting his comedy under the spotlight
29/04/2009 … Jim Davidson is to make a return to TV in a one-off reality show called: So You Think I'm An A***hole.
Montreal, here we come...
Just For laughs unveils line-up
29/04/2009 … This year’s line-up for Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival has been announced, with John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Carr and Tommy Tiernan…
Flanimals on film
Hollywood confims movie version
29/04/2009 … Ricky Gervais’s Flanimals children’s books are to be made into an animated Hollywood movie.
Tue 28 April 2009
© Universal Studios Russell Brand to remake Drop Dead Fred
'...in the tone of Beetlejuice'
28/04/2009 … The 1991 Rik Mayall comedy film Drop Dead Fred is to be remade – with Russell Brand in the starring role.
Jongleurs firm to pull out of stock market
Regent Inns shares plunge again
28/04/2009 … Share in struggling Jongleurs owner Regent Inns have plunged again after the company announced plans to pull out of the stock market.
Mon 27 April 2009
© BBC Super! Great!
Perrin remake wins 5million viewers
27/04/2009 … Reggie Perrin attracted an impressive 5 million viewers to BBC One on Friday night, despite many critics damning it as a poor imitation of the Leonard Rossiter original.
Front joins Thick Of It
Rebecca is satire's new minister
27/04/2009 … Rebecca Front is to replace disgraced Chris Langham in the next series of The Thick Of It.