Plans for BBC Three revealed
'Make me laugh' will be 'an editorial pillar'
10/12/2014 … BBC Three will feature two strands – one for comedy and one for factual programmes – when it moves online.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 10 December 2014
Release date for Dad's Army film
10/12/2014 … THE NEW film version of Dad’s Army has been given a release date of February 6, 2016.
Tue 09 December 2014
C4 sitcom for Barratt and Coleman
Flowers is 'dark, funny and challenging'
09/12/2014 … Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt are to star in a new comedy pilot, playing the parents of twentysomething twins.
You can hardly see the join...
Eric Morecambe statue has been repaired
09/12/2014 … Eric Morecambe’s statue is to be returned to its rightful place on Thursday, nine weeks after it was damaged by vandals.
© BBC QI team win 'best new podcast'
09/12/2014 … THE No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, recorded by the QI researchers, has been named best new podcast of 2014 by Apple’s iTunes store.
Roger that...
Poet McGough presents 'surreal' Radio 4 sketch show
09/12/2014 … Poet Roger McGough is to front a surreal new comedy sketch show for Radio 4.
Opening Bob Monkhouse's joke books
09/12/2014 … The Gold TV channel is to make a three-part documentary about Bob Monkhouse.
Mon 08 December 2014
Another round of Toast
Channel 4 orders a third series of Matt Berry's comedy
08/12/2014 … Channel 4 has commissioned Matt Berry to make a third series of Toast of London.