Comedy radio station launches
With podcast kings Richard Herring, Peacock & Gamble
20/02/2014 … Richard Herring, Peacock and Gamble and Carl Donnelly are among a raft of comedians broadcasting on a new radio station.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 20 February 2014
Wed 19 February 2014
How the bland and the posh failed alternative comedy
Alexei Sayle on 35 years in the business
19/02/2014 … Today’s stand-up scene has lost almost all links to the revolutionary spirit that first launched alternative comedy, Alexei Sayle has claimed.
Comic fights election on pro-busking ticket
Ben Van der Velde wins Green Party selection
19/02/2014 … Comedian Ben Van der Velde is to fight in May’s local election for the Green Party.
Karen Gillan cast in US sitcom
Dr Who star takes lead in Selfie
19/02/2014 … Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan is to take the lead role in a new American sitcom called Selfie.
Chris Morris to appear in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
19/02/2014 … Chris Morris is to appear in the new series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
Speaking ill of the dead...
Comic's bad-taste seance to mark anniversary of Thatcher's death
19/02/2014 … Stand-up Nathaniel Tapley is to mark the first anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s death with a comically disrespectful seance to raise her spirit from beyond…
Tue 18 February 2014
Putting the wit in Whitsun...
18/02/2014 … COMEDY festivals are returning to Inverness and Stratford-upon-Avon on the ate May bank holiday weekend.
All aboard the chuckle train!
Railway carriage becomes a comedy club
18/02/2014 … Rail passengers en route from London to Glasgow are to be entertained by a stand-up comedy gig.