Ricky Gervais offered his own US talk show
26/08/2011 … Ricky Gervais has been offered his own late-night US chat show on a major network – but turned it down.
2011 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 26 August 2011
ITV boss plans more comedies
'We lost our nerve' admits Fincham
26/08/2011 … ITV is considering a move back into comedy – a genre boss Peter Fincham admits it has neglected.
'Too heroic' for the Inbetweeners
26/08/2011 … 'Mrs Brown’s Boys is for people who've been in prison since the Seventies’.
2.5m are shown the funny
Ratings upswing for series's live final
26/08/2011 … The live final of Show Me The Funny managed to boost the series’s ratings – although it still fell well short of ITV’s usual viewing figures.
White House tapes turned into comedy
Harry Shearer to play Richard Nixon
26/08/2011 … The Simpsons star Harry Shearer is to play Richard Nixon in a new comedy-drama based on genuine recordings from the White House.
Charlie Brooker pens detective spoof
26/08/2011 … Charlie Brooker has written a two-hour spoof crime drama for Sky1.
Hack comedy
C4 to make comedy about phone-hacking scandal
26/08/2011 … Channel 4 is to make an hour-long comedy about the News International phone hacking scandal.
Thu 25 August 2011
So You Think You're Funny winner crowned
25/08/2011 … Tommy Rowson has been crowned the best new comedian of 2011 in the So You Think You’re Funny? final at the Edinburgh Fringe.