All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
...with Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong
15/09/2011 … Charlie Brooker and Peep Show’s Jesse Armstrong have written a Channel 4 mini-series described as ‘a contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone’.
15/09/2011 … Sky 1 has ordered two more series of supermarket comedy TrolliedThe first eight-part series – starring Jane Horrocks as the acting deputy managing of fictional…
...for a History channel travelogue
15/09/2011 … Fast Show stars Simon Day and John Thomson are to tour the UK in a new series for the History channel.
No new series, Shearsmith confirms
15/09/2011 … Psychoville will not be returning for a third series, creator Reece Shearsmith has announced.
Woman goes into labour during show
14/09/2011 … A pregnant woman laughed so hard during Alan Carr’s live show that she went into labour.
14/09/2011 … The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade has landed his first big-budget Hollywood role.
Comedy builds up your tolerance
14/09/2011 … A good laugh helps you tolerate more pain, according to new research conducted at the Edinburgh Fringe.
C4 to screen unseen Tommy footage
13/09/2011 … Previously unseen footage of Tommy Cooper is to be screened in a new Channel 4 documentary.
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