Barry Humphries to retire Dame Edna
18/03/2012 … Barry Humphries says he will no longer appear on stage as Dame Edna Everage as he’s feeling a ‘bit senior’ for the role.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 18 March 2012
Nina Conti wins international film prize
...as BBC4 snaps up her documentary
18/03/2012 … Nina Conti’s ventriloquism documentary Her Master’s Voice has won an international film award – just as the BBC snapped it up for broadcast.
Fri 16 March 2012
Greg Davies announces new tour
Titled: The Back Of My Mum's Head
16/03/2012 … Greg Davies has announced a 47-date autumn tour, called The Back Of My Mum's Head.
© Baby Cow Johnny Vegas in UFO sitcom
Another sci-fi pilot for the BBC
16/03/2012 … Johnny Vegas has shot a BBC Three sitcom pilot about UFOs, just months after blasting the channel for axing Ideal.
'The Muppets are rapists'
16/03/2012 … ‘People seem to find it a horrible thing, that I’m posh,’ Jack WhitehallThe Muppets are rapists.
Outnumbered: The movie
16/03/2012 … The writers of Outnumbered are planning to follow in the footsteps of The Inbetweeners, by writing a big-screen script.
BBC gets behind alien invasion
Corporation pilots sci-fi comedy
16/03/2012 … The BBC is piloting a new sci-fi comedy, based on Earth being invaded by an incompetent group of aliens.
Fight!
Doug Stanhope vs Allison Pearson in Twitter row
16/03/2012 … Doug Stanhope has caused an online storm after wishing a 'fetid ovarian cyst’ on journalist Allison Pearson.