Adam Riches leads Chortle nominees
22/02/2012 … Adam Riches leads the nominations in this year’s Chortle Awards.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 22 February 2012
Tue 21 February 2012
Doing comedy? There's an app for that
iPad allows mute comic to perform
21/02/2012 … An aspiring comic who lost the power of speech when he was a child has completed his first stand-up gig – using an iPad to talk.
Green Party dumps female comic to 'increase diversity'
Apology for ‘crass and inappropriate’ email
21/02/2012 … The Green Party has been forced to apologise for what it admits was the ‘crass and inappropriate’ way it dumped a female stand-up, saying they would rather…
Walliams makes a Stink at the BBC
Children's book adapted for screen
21/02/2012 … David Walliams' best-selling children's novel Mr Stink is to be made into a comedy-drama for BBC One.
Mon 20 February 2012
BBC orders David Schneider sitcom
20/02/2012 … The BBC has commissioned a new sitcom from David Schneider.
Russell Brand reveals his Dick
A 'big part' in Eric Idle show
20/02/2012 … Russell Brand is to star in a stage musical written by Eric Idle.
Where are all the South Yorkshire comics?
Desperate Foster launches apprenticeship
20/02/2012 … Look at any pub’s ‘what’s on’ listings and you might be forgiven for thinking the country was awash with open-spot comedians.
Off the hook...
Matthew Wright and Charlie Baker not censured for joking about teen's murder
20/02/2012 … TV presenter Matthew Wright and comedian Charlie Baker have escaped censure by broadcasting watchdogs after joking about the murder of 16-year-old in the Hebrides.