More for the Threesome
Comedy Central renews its sitcom
08/02/2012 … Comedy Central has ordered a second series of its first home-grown sitcom Threesome.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 08 February 2012
Tue 07 February 2012
Edinburgh to lose its Bongo Club
Fringe venue gets marching orders
07/02/2012 … One of the Edinburgh Fringe’s quirkier venues is to close after this year’s festival, after being turfed out of its home by its university landlords.
Millican's anger at fans who filmed her show
07/02/2012 … Sarah Millican has become embroiled with an online row with fans who filmed some of her stand-up show on their phones.
Mon 06 February 2012
Another BBC Three series for Russell Kane
Co-hosting with Radio 1's Greg James
06/02/2012 … Russell Kane is to front a new BBC Three comedy-entertainment series about how the channel’s audience behave.
Daniel Kitson returns to stand-up
Work in progress tickets go on sale
06/02/2012 … Daniel Kitson is to take his first new stand-up show to the Edinburgh Fringe in three years.
Britain loves Mrs Brown's Boys
6.2million watch final episode
06/02/2012 … The runaway success of Mrs Brown’s Boys shows no sign of abating, with the seventh series ending with an impressive 6.
Gervais does a U-turn on adverts
Superbowl commercial for Time Warner
06/02/2012 … He has previously been scrupulously principled about not appearing in adverts – but last night Ricky Gervais appeared in a multi-million pound Superbowl commercial…
Drunk comic banned from Perth festival
Bob Slayer DID outdrink Australia...
06/02/2012 … British stand-up Bob Slayer has been thrown off the programme of an Australian fringe festival – for being ‘drunk and inappropriate’.