Ricky Gervais finally sells his painting
12/07/2012 … The Ricky Gervais painting that failed to sell last week has finally found a buyer.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 12 July 2012
Stacey Solomon, sitcom star?
X-Factor singer making a teaser tape
12/07/2012 … Reality TV singer Stacey Solomon is hoping to become the star of her own sitcom.
Second series for Mount Pleasant
12/07/2012 … Comedy-drama Mount Pleasant is to return for a second series, but moving from Sky 1 to Sky Living.
Celebs to team up for Sky comedy
12/07/2012 … Peep Show co-writer Sam Bain is working on a new comedy series for Sky in which unlikely celebrity couples - the real ones - would appear in sketches together.
Another look in the Black Mirror
C4 orders more from Charlie Brooker
12/07/2012 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror plays.
BBC confirms The Thick Of It return
12/07/2012 … BBC Two has confirmed that The Thick Of It will return for a new series of seven half-hour episodes this autumn.
Wed 11 July 2012
US comic in hot water over rape joke
11/07/2012 … Comedian Daniel Tosh has apologised for making a rape joke – in a routine that was supposed to be about how it’s OK to make light of dark subjects.
Tue 10 July 2012
Hardly a new act...
Comic kicked out of competition final after truth emerges
10/07/2012 … A comedian has been kicked out of a new act final after misleading organisers about how long he had been performing.