Skinner: I turned down Benefits Street job
'I didn't want to be derogatory'
14/01/2014 … Frank Skinner has revealed that he refused to provide the voiceover for Channel 4’s controversial Benefits Street because he feared it would be ‘derogatory’…
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 14 January 2014
Fundraising in Addison's memory
14/01/2014 … THE family of comedy superagent and producer Addison Cresswell, who died of heart failure just before Christmas at the age of 53, have set up a fundraising in his…
Gavin & Stacey revival mooted... again
Ruth Jones suggests film or TV special
14/01/2014 … Ruth Jones has again revived the possibility of more Gavin & Stacey.
CK and Galifianakis unite for TV comedy
America's FX network orders a pilot
14/01/2014 … Louis CK and Zach Galifianakis are to unite for a new US television comedy.
Dylan Moran set for US sitcom
He's written a pilot about 'modern media'
14/01/2014 … Dylan Moran has written and is to star in his first US television show, a sitcom pilot based around 'modern news reporting'.
'Shut up you Harry Potter poofs'
Russell Brand addresses the Cambridge Union
14/01/2014 … Russell Brand demanded a revolution of civil disobedience when he addressed the Cambridge Union debating society.
Celebrating great Scots
Scotland to get its own comedy awards
14/01/2014 … Scotland is set to have its own comedy awards, after the London-based media were accused of ignoring the scene north of the border.
Mon 13 January 2014
North Korea to get the Good Life?
13/01/2014 … NORTH KOREANS could soon be laughing at the exploits of The Good Life, as BBC Worldwide is negotiating with the television station run by the brutal regime to export…