Chortle kicks off Latitude
Student finalists open Suffolk festival
13/07/2012 … Chortle Student finalists have kicked off this year’s Latitude Festival.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 13 July 2012
Mark Thomas slates Michael McIntyre
13/07/2012 … ‘Nothing offends people any more – except those who have got something to gain by being offended.
David Walliams set for new panel show
With Frank Skinner and Greg Davies
13/07/2012 … David Walliams is being lined up to host a new primetime panel show on BBC One, with Frank Skinner and Greg Davies as team captains.
Thu 12 July 2012
Ricky Gervais finally sells his painting
12/07/2012 … The Ricky Gervais painting that failed to sell last week has finally found a buyer.
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.