2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 19 January 2014
Sat 18 January 2014
Monahan takes an early bath...
VIDEO: Comic Patrick out of ITV's Splash!
18/01/2014 … Patrick Monahan failed to make it through to the semi-finals of ITV diving show Splash! tonight, despite impressing judges with his bravery.
Where there's a hit, there's a writ
New Girl isn't so new, claims plagiarism lawsuit
18/01/2014 … Two screenwriters have launched a lawsuit claiming the hit American sitcom New Girl is a rip-off from a pilot they developed.
Fri 17 January 2014
Think You're Funny? Then enter this...
17/01/2014 … APPLICATIONS have opened for this year;'s So You Think You're Funny competition for new comedians.
For Felix...
Charity foundation set up in Dexter's name
17/01/2014 … A new foundation has been set up in memory of Felix Dexter, who died in October at the age of 52.
'I was a comedy armed robber'
17/01/2014 … • 'I don’t know how to write jokes and I don’t have punchlines.
Thu 16 January 2014
Gilligan's Island Professor dies
War hero Russell Johnson was 89
16/01/2014 … Russell Johnson, who played The Professor in the classic American sitcom Gilligan’s Island has died at age of 89.
How nurses don't get humour
- and why that could affect healthcare
16/01/2014 … Nurses are failing to use humour – or even recognise when their own patients are using it – even though it means they are missing vital ways to communicate,…