'Let's have it out, you and me...'
11/09/2015 … • Ricky Grover turned bouncer during his stand-up set at Headliners in West London last weekend.
2015 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 11 September 2015
Jack Dee takes over The Apprentice: You’re Fired
With Romesh Ranganathan a regular
11/09/2015 … Jack Dee is to take over BBC Two’s companion show to The Apprentice, You’re Fired.
Peter Capaldi to direct Veep
Dr Who star to helm 'a couple of episodes'
11/09/2015 … His career skyrocketed after playing Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It – and now Peter Capaldi is to direct its American cousin, Veep.
© BBC Citizen Smith set for a comeback?
Robert Lindsay in talks to revive Wolfie
11/09/2015 … Citizen Smith could be heading back to TV – all thanks to Jeremy Corbyn.
Thu 10 September 2015
The ‘longest, dumbest’ comedy album
Eugene Mirman's 500-track epic includes 195 orgasms
10/09/2015 … American comic Eugene Mirman is releasing his next stand-up show as a seven-album box set that includes him crying for 45 minutes, 195 orgasms and an introduction…
A dark day for Josh Widdicombe
Tour date abandoned as power fails
10/09/2015 … Josh Widdicombe was forced to cancel the opening night of his tour last night after a power cut hit the Playhouse Theatre in Oxford.
Sky eyes Romesh Ranganathan sitcom
About a barrister turned rural pub landlord
10/09/2015 … Romesh Ranganathan is working on a semi-autobiographical sitcom for Sky 1.
© Carys Lavin Funny Women drops 'pay-to-play'
Competition's 2015 final approaches
10/09/2015 … The Funny Women award has quietly dropped its controversial charge for comedians to enter.