Give Les Dawson an OBE!
Johnny Vegas spearheads campaign
15/01/2015 … Johnny Vegas is spearheading a campaign to award a posthumous OBE to Les Dawson.
2015 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 15 January 2015
Pastures new
Edinburgh's Udderbelly is on the move
15/01/2015 … Udderbelly - the Edinburgh Fringe’s giant upside-down cow – is on the move for the next two years.
Wed 14 January 2015
Al Murray takes on Nigel Farage
Pub Landlord to contest Parliamentary seat
14/01/2015 … Al Murray has announced his intention to stand in the next General Election – contesting the same seat as Nigel Farage.
Glasgow festival programme launched
14/01/2015 … THE GLASGOW International Comedy Festival has launched its 2015 programme, offering nearly 106,000 tickets for 400 shows at 46 venues across the city from March…
Dry humour
Could comedy work without booze?
14/01/2015 … Live comedy usually goes hand-in-hand with drinking – but one new club is challenging that by going booze-free.
Could this solve Fringe accommodation crisis?
Festival campsite planned for Edinburgh
14/01/2015 … Edinburgh is set to get a campsite for the Fringe, allowing festival-goers to stay in the city for as little as £12 a night.
Another comic dropped for being a woman
Customers said: 'We don't like female comedians'
14/01/2015 … Another comedian has revealed how she was dropped from a stand-up bill - for being a woman.
Tue 13 January 2015
Woody Allen to make his first ever TV series
13/01/2015 … Woody Allen is to create his first ever TV series.