Ross Noble announces West End run
Six weeks in London's Theatreland
06/05/2009 … Ross Noble has announced a six-week West End run.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 06 May 2009
Lucas and Walliams revive Rock Profiles
06/05/2009 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams have recorded six new Rock Profiles sketches, nine years after the TV series ended.
Adams's unfinished novel heads to R4
...adapted by the writer of Spice World
06/05/2009 … Douglas Adams’s unfinished Dirk Gently novel is to be adapted for Radio 4.
Tue 05 May 2009
Dom DeLuise dies
05/05/2009 … Veteran American comedian Dom DeLuise has died at the age of 75.
Radio sitcom for McGowan
Consumer watchdog comedy in the works
05/05/2009 … Alistair McGowan has record a sitcom pilot based around a consumer watchdog radio show.
Toronto gets a British comedy gala
05/05/2009 … John Cleese is to host a British comedy gala at the Toronto’s new Just For Laughs comedy festival.
Fringe Sunday cancelled
Recession hits festival's biggest event
05/05/2009 … Edinburgh’s free Fringe Sunday event has been axed after organisers failed to find a headline sponsor.
'There's a lot of dross in there'
Robert Lyndsay derides My Family scripts
05/05/2009 … My Family star Robert Lyndsay has admitted that 90 per cent of his long-running sitcom isn’t that good.