2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 03 April 2016
Caitlin Jenner joins Transparent
High-profile signing for Amazon series
03/04/2016 … Caitlyn Jenner is joining the cast of comedy series Transparent.
Sat 02 April 2016
New film asks: Can we take a joke?
02/04/2016 … A documentary about offence in comedy is to hit US cinemas later this year.
Did Comedy Central rip off this sketch?
02/04/2016 … America's Comedy Central has been accused of ripping of a sketch that originally aired on New Zealand TV.
Fri 01 April 2016
Protestors 'sabotage' comedy show
They snap up all the tickets – then fail to show up
01/04/2016 … A comedy gig about free speech has been sabotaged – by protestors angry at stand-up Kate Smurthwaite's views.
© Mark Johnson / Channel4 'The same thing happened with Eamonn Holmes...'
01/04/2016 … • ‘It upsets me if I meet someone before a show wearing jeans and a jersey who goes on stage in the same clothes.
Brawl breaks out over comic's risqué jokes
‘It was mayhem. There were fists everywhere'
01/04/2016 … A brawl broke out in a comedy club when a heckler challenged comic Roger Monkhouse for telling risque jokes.