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.
2013 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 09 August 2013
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.
Tue 06 August 2013
It’s Alan Appartridge
06/08/2013 … A NEW Alan Partridge iPhone app has been released to coincide with the release of his Alpha Papa movie.
Matt Lucas creates sci-fi sketch series
06/08/2013 … Radio 4 has commissioned a new comedy sketch series created by Matt Lucas, set more than 500 years in the future.