Michael McIntyre launches festive fundraiser
04/11/2014 … Michael McIntyre is to return to the Hammersmith Apollo for his fifth Christmas charity show.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 04 November 2014
Toast warms up in the ratings
04/11/2014 … MATT BERRY's Toast of London attracted 426,000 viewers to Channel 4 last night – up 18 per cent on the 361,000 viewers who watched the opening episode of the…
Comedians take over a City institution
Including a League Against Tedium revival
04/11/2014 … Comedians are to take over an historic City of London institution for a pop-up venue this Christmas.
Reece Shearsmith and the haunted rectory
Work under way on animated horror 'documentary'
04/11/2014 … Reece Shearsmith is to star in a Gothic horror film about the most haunted house in England.
Mon 03 November 2014
Frankie Boyle film premiere set
03/11/2014 … GASPING, the short film directed by Still Game's Greg Hemphill and starring Frankie Boyle, playing a recovering alcholic in his first big-screen role, is to get…
Douglas Adams's secret stash revealed
Hitchhikers Guide material to get its first airing
03/11/2014 … Details of the previously unseen Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy material to be exclusively performed at Chortle's comedy book festival have been revealed.
Alan Carr announces mammoth tour
03/11/2014 … Alan Carr has announced a mammoth 2015 tour entitled Yap, Yap Yap.
Comics Moving On to drama
BBC One roles for McCasuland and Crilley
03/11/2014 … Comedy names including Anna Crilly, Chris McCausland and Neil Fitzmaurice are to appear in the new series of BBC One daytime drama Moving On.