Sacha Baron Cohen studied by aiii-cademics
Ali G creator 'hard to criticise'
05/01/2015 … Sacha Baron Cohen’s work has become the subject of academic research, which concluded that his characters were ‘difficult to criticse’.
2015 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 05 January 2015
© ITV/Big Talk ITV release Cockroaches via broadband
05/01/2015 … ITV has put all six episodes of its new post-apocalyptic comedy Cockroaches online, more than a week before its conventional broadcast.
© BBC Rowan Atkinson joins Horrible Histories
Kids' sketch show makes a comeback
05/01/2015 … Rowan Atkinson is returning to period comedy – by making a guest appearance in Horrible Histories.
Allo Allo star Roger Kitter dies
05/01/2015 … Tributes have been paid to Roger Kitter, who played Captain Alberto Bertorelli in Allo Allo, who has died at the age of 64.
30,000 protest C4's famine comedy
Plans branded 'beyond callous'
05/01/2015 … A petition against Channel 4’s decision to explore a comedy set against the backdrop of the Irish famine has attracted almost 30,000 signatures.
Sun 04 January 2015
© BBC Kitson, Lee and Elis James' TV acting debut...
04/01/2015 … The comedy week aheadMonday January 5LIVE IN LONDON: Daniel Kitson's two-hander Tree begins a four-week run at the Old Vic theatre… and unusually for a Kitson…
Fri 02 January 2015
Wait... Graham Norton has a WIFE?!
02/01/2015 … • 'I've never had Botox – but I like people to imagine I have.
© BBC Mrs Brown's Boys 'will be with us until 2020'
02/01/2015 … Mrs Brown’s Boys will be on our screens for at least five more years.