The end of the Comedy Cafe as you know it
'Brainless' audiences prompt rethink
02/12/2011 … London’s Comedy Cafe is closing its main room – after its owner got fed up with the ‘brainless’ audiences it has been attracting.
2011 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 02 December 2011
Thu 01 December 2011
Highlight clubs to axe comedy nights
Stand-up has become 'much less profitable'
01/12/2011 … Highlight is axing comedy nights at four of its nine venues.
Who are you calling a 'she'?
Piers Morgan screws up O'Neal tribute
01/12/2011 … Piers Morgan has been ridiculed after paying tribute to Patrice O’Neal – but believing the comedian was femaleThe sincerity of the former Britain's Got Talent…
Wed 30 November 2011
Jack Whitehall lands his own sitcom
Among raft of new BBC Three comedies
30/11/2011 … Jack Whitehall has landed his own sitcom, announced amid a raft of new BBC Three commissions today.
Bain & Armstrong mine soaps for laughs
30/11/2011 … Peep Show and Fresh Meat creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong have written a new comedy for Channel 4, spoofing glitzy Dynasty-style soap operas.
Radio 4 commissions Edinburgh comedies
...plus a 'surreal' series from Matt Berry
30/11/2011 … Radio 4 has annouced a batch of new comedy shows, including four pilots commissioned from Edinburgh Fringe shows.
Tue 29 November 2011
Patrice O'Neal dies
A month after suffering stroke
29/11/2011 … American comedian Patrice O’Neal has died at the age of 41 – a month after suffering a serious stroke that left him unable to speak.
Now Jongleurs goes into online dating
29/11/2011 … Comedy club chain Jongleurs has moved into the internet dating business.