Matt Lucas: I'm not splitting from David
16/06/2011 … Matt Lucas has reassured fans he is not splitting up with David Walliams.
2011 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 16 June 2011
Wed 15 June 2011
Robert De Niro to play another comedian
15/06/2011 … Sean Penn has signed up to direct Robert De Niro’s new movie about a bitter, ageing stand-up.
Matt Lucas films BBC One pilot
15/06/2011 … Matt Lucas is set to front his own BBC One series, based on his Radio 2 awards show.
Tue 14 June 2011
MPs grill C4 boss over Frankie Boyle gag
Under fire over 'appalling' joke
14/06/2011 … Frankie Boyle’s joke about Katie Price’s disabled son has come under intense scrutiny in the Commons, with MPs branding it ‘unjustifiable’.
Andrew Maxwell joins Sky 1's Wall Of Fame
With David Walliams and Jack Dee
14/06/2011 … Stand-up Andrew Maxwell is to be a regular team captain on David Walliams’s new Sky 1 panel show, Wall Of Fame.
© C4 Comic Strip returns for Blair satire
...with Jennifer Saunders as Thatcher
14/06/2011 … The legendary Comic Strip team are to return to Channel 4 for the first time in six years with a one-off show, The Hunt for Tony Blair.
Mon 13 June 2011
Russell Kane's seaside special
13/06/2011 … Russell Kane is to front his own six-part Radio Two series featuring a raft of guest stand-ups.
The funny side of 1908
Armstong & Miller in new sitcom
13/06/2011 … Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong are set to star in a new Channel 4 sitcom set around the 1908 London Olympics.