2015 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 21 June 2015
Susan Calman's internet supurrrstars
21/06/2015 … Susan Calman is to front a one-off programme exploring how cat videos have come to dominate the internet.
Sat 20 June 2015
Free speech? Only if you're black or gay
Jackie Mason goes off on one...
20/06/2015 … Jackie Mason has complained that free speech is 'only for black people and homosexuals'.
Netflix orders Maria Bamford series
To be produced by Arrested Development creator
20/06/2015 … Maria Bamford is to make an 'occasionally surreal' comedy show for Netflix, produced by the creator of Arrested Development.
Fri 19 June 2015
Phone joke rings a bell...
19/06/2015 … • 'I don't have to be good-looking - I'm funny.
Burbs star dies at 62
19/06/2015 … CANADIAN comedian Rick Ducommun has died in Vancouver at the age of 62 from complications due to diabetes.
A global Catastrophe
Channel 4 comedy sold to 10 more countries
19/06/2015 … Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe has gone global – signing deals to be shown in ten more countries.
Thu 18 June 2015
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Inside 'Inside No 9'
Shearsmith and Pemberton join Chortle conference
18/06/2015 … Inside No 9 creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been added to the line-up of this year's Chortle Conference.