Promotion for BBC comedy chief
Mark Freeland now 'controller of fiction and entertainment'
18/12/2013 … The BBC’s head of in-house comedy has been promoted to oversee drama and entertainment, too.
2013 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 18 December 2013
Tue 17 December 2013
Milton Jones returns to Radio 4
17/12/2013 … Milton Jones is returning to Radio 4 – less than two years after the channel axed his last show – as a Good Samaritan-style problem solver.
Jim Gaffigan stars in plagiarised movie
Shia LaBeouf ripped off comic book
17/12/2013 … A new short film starring American comic Jim Gaffigan has been exposed as a direct rip-off of a comic novella.
8 Out Of 10 Cats get another nine lives
...well, episodes. Plus more Countdown specials
17/12/2013 … Channel 4 has commissioned another series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, plus new episodes of their Countdown specials.
Ticket fees under fire again
Agencies add £9.50 to £25 Jimmy Carr seats
17/12/2013 … Crippling booking fees are back under the spotlight after investigators found ticket agencies ramping up the price of a Jimmy Carr gig by almost 40 per cent.
You can't say 'Scouser'... it's racist
What sitcom writer claims he was told
17/12/2013 … ITV banned jokes about Scousers and drunken Australians from the revival of Birds Of A Feather, the sitcom’s writer has claimed.
Mon 16 December 2013
Atkinson sketch tops 2013 complaints list
16/12/2013 … THE Comic Relief sketch in which Rowan Atkinson played a fictional Archbishop of Canterbury who said praying ‘doesn’t work’ and that ‘love thy neighbour’…
Franke Boyle's lost for words
Comic mislays his joke book in Glasgow
16/12/2013 … Frankie Boyle has launched an appeal on Twitter after he lost a notebook containing his jokes.