© 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.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 23 August 2014
© Geraint Lewis 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.
Musical comic wins SYTYF?
Edinburgh triumph for Aidan Strangeman
21/08/2014 … Irish musical comedian Aidan Strangeman has won the annual So You Think You’re Funny? new talent hunt at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© C4 E4 buys Gum
New comedy from award-winning playwright
21/08/2014 … E4 has greenlit a new comedy series about a Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old, bought up in a strict religious family in Tower Hamlets, east London.