Student Awards: The final eight
Contest reaches its last stage
22/05/2012 … The last five finalists in the Chortle Student Comedy Awards have been named following an impressive semi-final in London.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 22 May 2012
© BBC My Family 'wasn't axed for being middle class'
22/05/2012 … BBC One’s controller Danny Cohen has denied My Family was axed because it was ‘too middle class’.
Mon 21 May 2012
Radio 2 falls for The Trap
21/05/2012 … Acclaimed sketch group The Trap are to record a pilot for Radio 2.
Sandi Toksvig to host C4 quiz show
21/05/2012 … Sandi Toksvig is to host a new Channel 4 quiz show, 1001 Things You Should Know.
Piff roasts the plagiarist
Magic Dragon act ripped off on Russian TV
21/05/2012 … The man behind Piff The Magic Dragon has spoken out against the imposter who stole his act on Russian TV.
Sat 19 May 2012
Count Arthur heads to TV
BBC Two sitcom shooting this year
19/05/2012 … Radio 4 stalwart Count Arthur Strong is to make the leap to TV – with a BBC Two sitcom shooting at the end of the year.
Fri 18 May 2012
Dictator falls foul of dictator
Baron Cohen banned in Tajikistan
18/05/2012 … Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator has been banned in Tajikistan after censors deemed the movie unsuitable.
Police Academy 6... by Ben Elton?
18/05/2012 … ‘If I didn’t invent all these ideas in comedy, I’d probably be a serial killer.