Sanjeev Kohli takes on Scottish independence
...but Open All Hours may have scuppered his sitcom
30/01/2014 … Still Game star Sanjeev Kohli is to front a Weekly Wipe-style guide to Scottish independence.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 30 January 2014
Memoirs of the '7th Python'
Carol Cleveland writes her autobiography
30/01/2014 … Monty Python’s ‘7th member’, Carol Cleveland, is to write her memoirs to coincide with the comedy troupe’s comeback gigs this summer.
Still Open All Hours kept in business
30/01/2014 … The BBC has commissioned a full run of Still Open All Hours following the success of the Christmas special.
Wed 29 January 2014
Jim Davidson wins Celebrity Big Brother
29/01/2014 … Jim Davidson has won this year’s Celebrity Big Brother.
'Banned' Bible comedy sells out
The publicity power of a protest...
29/01/2014 … Hardline Christian councillors who campaigned against a Bible-based comedy show have only served to boost its appeal.
© BBC/Richard Ansett BBC orders second series of Inside No 9
From Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
29/01/2014 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Inside No 9 – the new comedy from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – before the first has even aired.
'I'm not getting comedians on!'
What Michael McIntyre said of his new talk show
29/01/2014 … Michael McIntyre has said he wont’t have fellow stand-ups on his new BBC One chat show – because he wants to provide the comedy himself.
2.9m seek a Bad Education online
29/01/2014 … JACK WHITEHALL's sitcom Bad Education has proved a hit on iPlayer, with 2.