© BBC/Balloon Entertainment/Colin Hutton 2015 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 18 October 2015
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David Morgan heads to I'm A Celeb jungle
18/10/2015 … Stand-up David Morgan is to join the hosting team on reality TV spin-off series I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here Now! He replaces fellow comic Rob Beckett…
Fri 16 October 2015
Radio 2 takes a pun-t on Tim Vine
16/10/2015 … TIM VINE's Chat Show is the fifth pilot to be featured in Radio 2's Comedy Showcase season.
Manford and Jupitus join Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Comics tour with musical next year
16/10/2015 … Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus are to star in the 2016 UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Stanhope skewers cut-and-paste journalism
16/10/2015 … •'I can't imagine anyone going to a John Oliver show is going to be a prick.
Graham Chapman's blue plaque 'stolen'
Palin slams 'stupid and selfish' act
16/10/2015 … Thieves are thought to have stolen a blue plaque celebrating Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
Catherine Tate: I'm planning to tour
16/10/2015 … Catherine Tate is considering her first live tour, possibly as early as this spring.
UK book deal for Amy Schumer
Memoirs to be published next year
16/10/2015 … Amy Schumer's memoirs are to be published in the UK in a deal worth 'well into six figures'.