2015 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 22 November 2015
Fri 20 November 2015
An influential comic you've probably never heard of
20/11/2015 … The best comedy on demand…Call Me LuckyOnly the most dedicated of comedy fans will have heard of Barry Crimmins, but he is an influential name in American stand-up.
Yuriko Kotani scoops BBC New Comedy Award
Winner of Radio 2 audience vote
20/11/2015 … Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani has won this year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2015.
John Bishop and the gorillas
Comic films ITV wildlife documentary
20/11/2015 … John Bishop is making a wildlife documentary for ITV, tracking mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
Ross Noble shoots another horror film
20/11/2015 … Ross Noble has just finished filming on a new horror film.
'I can only express some things in Welsh'
Elis James on doing stand-up in his native tongue
20/11/2015 … Elis James has shot his first stand-up special… in Welsh.
What a massive mouth...
Jason Manford hosts a show from UK's biggest cave opening
20/11/2015 … Jason Manford is to sing with a brass band at Britain’s biggest cave mouth for a Sky Arts Christmas show.
© ITV Walliams and Wright unite
For animated movie about shadows
20/11/2015 … David Walliams is writing an animated film with Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright.