Jimmy Carr's dwarf joke WAS offensive, Ofcom rules
25/01/2016 … Jimmy Carr has landed The One Show in hot water with broadcast regulators Ofcom for making jokes about dwarves.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 25 January 2016
Sun 24 January 2016
Vic and Bob (and Limmy)
The best of the comedy week ahead
24/01/2016 … The comedy week ahead…Monday January 25LIVE IN LONDON: Leading indie venue and producers The Invisible Dot have booked the Hammersmith Apollo to celebrate their…
Sat 23 January 2016
'Offensive' material... for free
23/01/2016 … Brendon Burns: So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive NowBrendon Burns has put his full award-winning 2007 show online, and for free, all in the name of context.
Fri 22 January 2016
Harry Hill leads new batch of iPlayer comedies
Funny Valentines 2016 announced
22/01/2016 … Harry Hill, Stephen Mangan and Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray are to make new shorts for the BBC iPlayer.
© Christopher William Adach/Creative Commons Julie Walters joins sex-case drama
Alongside Robbie Coltrane as a comedian under scrutiny
22/01/2016 … Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough are to join Robbie Coltrane in a new Channel 4 drama about a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police…
'Seriously, give me a clown on the table'
22/01/2016 … •‘Nothing that is mere wordplay is ever witty, so the man who makes puns must do all his own laughing.
© BBC BBC comedy loses its second exec this week
Ben Farrell goes back to indie Objective
22/01/2016 … The BBC’s in-house comedy department has lost its second executive in a week.
Legal victory for Bill Cosby
22/01/2016 … Bill Cosby has won a legal victory in his battle against a flurry of sexual abuse allegations.