Moms the word
Whoopi Goldberg's film tribute to a comedy pioneer
19/04/2013 … Whoopi Goldberg is making her directorial debut with a documentary about pioneering comedian Moms Mabley.
2013 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 19 April 2013
Thu 18 April 2013
For sale: Milton Berle's joke archive
Thousands of gags on file cards
18/04/2013 … The famed archive of jokes that American comedian Milton Berle collected over his lifetime is to be auctioned in Los Angeles next month.
Mock The Week's 'more fun' without Frankie
18/04/2013 … Dara O Briain says Mock The Week has got ‘a lot more fun’ since Frankie Boyle left.
The £10m comedy ticket scam
That's the value of the fraud market, says report
18/04/2013 … Ticket fraud cost British comedy fans almost £10million last year.
Wed 17 April 2013
The free shows you can pay for...
17/04/2013 … An Edinburgh Fringe promoter says he has found a ‘third way’ to put on shows, partway between free-admission and paid ticketing.
I was Maggie Thatcher's butler
17/04/2013 … Mrs Brown’s Boys star Brendan O'Carroll has revealed that he once worked as Margaret Thatcher's butler.
© Optimum Releasing / Film 4 C4 drops Four Lions
Fear of insensitivity after Boston blasts
17/04/2013 … Channel 4 has dropped Chris Morris’s terrorism satire Four Lions from its schedules following the Boston explosions.
Tue 16 April 2013
App-solutely fabulous
Chortle comes to Android phones
16/04/2013 … Chortle is now available as an Android app.