'They don't want anything interesting or edgy'
23/08/2014 … Frankie Boyle has launched a typically forthright attack on risk-averse TV commissioners, toothless middle-class satire and the lack of women on panel shows.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 23 August 2014
Awards, awards, awards
23/08/2014 … THE WINNERS of the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards have been announced at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© Geraint Lewis John Kearns wins Fosters award
Alex Edelman best newcomer; Funz & Gamez panel prize
23/08/2014 … John Kearns has won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Fri 22 August 2014
US has a second bite at Friday Night Dinner
22/08/2014 … America is having a second attempt at making its own version of Friday Night Dinner.
© BBC Peak-time viewing
BBC One orders Mountain Goats sitcom
22/08/2014 … BBC One has commissioned a full series of Mountain Goats following the success of a Comedy Playhouse pilot.
Alan Davies As Yet Untitled to return
Dave orders a second series of 10 episodes
22/08/2014 … Alan Davies’s talk show As Yet Untitled has been recommissioned for a second series, to air early next year.
Thu 21 August 2014
Sketch show for Keith Lemon
'One of the finest comic minds of his generation'
21/08/2014 … Keith Lemon is to star in his own sketch show on ITV2.
'Rip three kinds of shit out of me with a whip'
21/08/2014 … •'The quiet guy doing the show before me had an act where he dressed up as Mother Teresa.