Ross Noble's Elephant Man gag cleared
12/03/2013 … Have I Got News For You has been cleared after a viewer complained that a gag Ross Noble cracked on the show was offensive.
2013 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 12 March 2013
Norman, you legend!
Wisdom wins Leicester fest honour
12/03/2013 … He might not be the most fashionable, of comedians, but Norman Wisdom has been named the ultimate Legend of Comedy.
Mon 11 March 2013
Google hails Douglas Adams
11/03/2013 … Google has marked what would have been Douglas Adams’s 61st birthday with a Google Doodle.
Make your own network
Top comics launch online venture
11/03/2013 … Star comics including Sarah Silverman and Reggie Watts have launched a new internet video company.
Sun 10 March 2013
'The desperation is palpable'
New sitcom set on open-mic night
10/03/2013 … A new YouTube sitcom aims to expose the ‘desperation and vanity’ of would-be stand-ups on the lowest rung of the comedy ladder.
Sat 09 March 2013
Where are all the right-wing comics?
Radio 4 struggles to find balance
09/03/2013 … Radio 4 has admitted it ‘struggles’ to find enough right-wing comedians to provide political balance to its comedy shows.
Fri 08 March 2013
Sayle back on the Fringe
First Edinburgh run in decades
08/03/2013 … Alexei Sayle is to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in around 20 years, with a run at The Stand.
What GQ tells us about comedy
08/03/2013 … The new GQ magazine is a comedy special, featuring David Walliams nterviewing Steve Martin, 100 top jokes, Modern Family, Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival…