Bishop to host Royal Variety
And Dame Edna makes an appearance
16/10/2013 … John Bishop is to host this year’s Royal Variety Performance.
2013 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 16 October 2013
Tue 15 October 2013
© Stephen Shakeshaft / Liverpool Echo and Post By Jove! Doddy exposed
15/10/2013 … AN EXHIBITION charting half a century in Ken Dodd’s career is to open at The Museum of Liverpool next month.
Parlez-vous Français?
15/10/2013 … London is to get its second regular French language comedy club – with plans for German shows to follow.
Still Game 'set for a comeback'
And the rumours are it's for the stage
15/10/2013 … Scottish comics Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are set to put their feud behind them – and bring back Still Game.
Mon 14 October 2013
Ker sells his sitcom to America
14/10/2013 … Humphrey Ker has sold a sitcom based on his own life to America’s ABC network.
Joke contest goes crackers
1,000 enter Gold's gag challenge
14/10/2013 … Almost 1,000 entries have been received in digital channel Gold’s search to update corny Christmas cracker jokes.
© Michael Prince Peep Show writers take on the police
Danny Boyle to direct C4 comedy-drama
14/10/2013 … Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong have written a new Channel 4 comedy-drama, based around both the top brass and the beat coppers at Scotland Yard.
Mark Thomas blacklisted!
No wonder he never got any building work...
14/10/2013 … Mark Thomas says he is ‘shocked’ to find his name on a blacklist of building workers.