Michael McIntyre becomes chat show host
15/01/2014 … Michael McIntyre is to host his own BBC One chat show.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 15 January 2014
Tue 14 January 2014
Seinfeld spotted filming in NY
14/01/2014 … Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander have been seen filming together, reviving rumours that the comedian’s next project may be some form of Seinfeld reunion.
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’…
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.