Linehan's Ladykillers to tour UK
After West End run ends next month
19/03/2012 … Graham Linehan’s stage adaptation of The Ladykillers is to go on tour this autumn.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 19 March 2012
Harry Hill's 'U-turn' over TV Burp
Show WILL return after all, it's claimed
19/03/2012 … TV Burp is reportedly set to continue – after Harry Hill had a change of heart.
Sun 18 March 2012
'Doug Stanhope's just an abusive bully'
Disability campaigner joins Twitter row
18/03/2012 … A leading disability rights campaigner has attacked Doug Stanhope for heaping abuse on a journalist – even though he was defending a severely paralysed man at…
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.
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.