Dylan Moran's weird world tour
Show goes to unusual locations
03/09/2012 … Dylan Moran has unveiled a tour of unusual European cities for an English-speaking stand-up to play.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 03 September 2012
Ricky Gervais is a sick comic
Rushed to hospital with abdominal pains
03/09/2012 … Ricky Gervais had to rush to hospital from the set of Derek suffering severe abdominal pains.
Victoria Wood joins Case Histories
Comic guests on BBC crime drama
03/09/2012 … Victoria Wood is to join the cast of BBC One crime drama Case Histories.
Sat 01 September 2012
Iannucci to take on social media
...but The Thick Of It likely to end
01/09/2012 … Armando Iannucci is likely to end The Thick Of It to work on a new comedy about dotcom billionaires.
Max Bygraves dies at 89
'King Of The London Palladium'
01/09/2012 … Veteran comic entertainer Max Bygraves has died in Australia, aged 89.
Fri 31 August 2012
End of the (Direct) Line
Firm ends its Chris Addison adverts
31/08/2012 … Direct Line is dropping its comedy adverts featuring Chris Addison and Alexander Armstrong.
How a gig turned into a strip lapdance
31/08/2012 … ‘If you stay in the game long enough people have to stop saying “you’re shit” and instead say, “She’s definitely doing something whether I like it or…
Off the Boyle
C4 'to drop' Frankie over his Paralympic jokes
31/08/2012 … Channel 4 are said to be severing their ties with Frankie Boyle after he made jokes about Paralympic athletes.