Conchords star plans Labyrinth-style movie
Brett McKenzie working with Muppets director
11/08/2013 … Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie is working on a comedy musical, partly inspired by Labyrinth.
2013 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 11 August 2013
Sat 10 August 2013
Herald Angels sing praises of Sean Hughes
10/08/2013 … SEAN HUGHES has won a Herald Angel award for his Edinburgh Fringe show Penguins, the only comedy award the newspaper has given so far this festival.
Fri 09 August 2013
BBC orders Welsh comedy series
With Cariad Lloyd, Lloyd Langford and Elis James
09/08/2013 … Some of Wales’s top comedians are to make a new radio sketch series, Here Be Dragons.
Chris Rock's special gift to a cancer patient
09/08/2013 … WTF: Weekly Trivia File • All I really want to talk about is anal sex and farting’ Reginald D Hunter.
Thu 08 August 2013
Look Who's in Edinburgh
Doctor Who showrunner in improv show
08/08/2013 … Doctor Who supremo Steven Moffat is to make an appearance in an improvised comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Win a mediocre prize, with Rob Brydon
New BBC One Saturday night pilot
08/08/2013 … Rob Brydon is piloting a new BBC One Saturday night game show – in which all the prizes are ‘mediocre’.
Wed 07 August 2013
Comic sent down mine over a ill-judged joke
Satirist upsets North Korean officials
07/08/2013 … A North Korean comedian was sent away to undertake hard labour in a coal mine midway through her performance, after she said something to offend the draconian regime.
Muppet sequel: Trailer released
With Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey
07/08/2013 … The first trailer for the Muppet movie sequel has been released online.