Johnny Vegas, TV shopping host
As part of an ambitious theatre project
27/05/2011 … Johnny Vegas is to become a presenter on TV shopping network.
2011 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 27 May 2011
Billy Connolly hurt in trike crash
27/05/2011 … Billy Connolly has broken his rib after crashing his trike on America's Route 66.
© BBC Dick Emery, Queen's saviour
27/05/2011 … 'What makes you unhappy?''All UK comedians.
Thu 26 May 2011
Dave commissions 'micro sketch show'
4min episodes from Navelgazing
26/05/2011 … Internet sketch-makers Navelgazing have been commissioned to make a series of comedy shorts for digital channel Dave.
© BBC Jail, bombs and cancer
It's BBC Three's new comedy roster
26/05/2011 … Their settings don't immediately appear to be a bundle of laughs… but comedies based in a women’s prison, a bomb disposal unit and a teenage cancer ward are…
Talent show cheat exposed
Australia's Got Talent comic ripped off Lee Mack
26/05/2011 … A would-be comedian has been outed for stealing Lee Mack’s jokes when he appeared on Australia's Got Talent.
Wed 25 May 2011
Tattoo row fails to stall Hangover 2
25/05/2011 … A judge has ruled that The Hangover: Part II can open as planned tomorrow – after a tattoo artist threatened to stall its release in a copyright battle.
Mon 23 May 2011
UK Asian channel makes its first comedy
23/05/2011 … British-Asian TV channel Star has commissioned its first home-grown sketch show,The channel, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation which traditionally…