© BBC/Open Mike/Ellis O’Brien 2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 05 June 2016
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© C4/Ed Miller Another award for Catastrophe
Comedy honoured at South Bank Sky Arts ceremony
05/06/2016 … Catastrophe has won this year’s South Bank Sky Arts award for comedySharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Channel 4 sitcom saw off competition from fellow nominees…
Sat 04 June 2016
Amber Heard sues Doug Stanhope
Lawsuit over comic's claim she was blackmailing Johnny Depp
04/06/2016 … Doug Stanhope is being sued by Amber Heard for claiming that she is blackmailing her estranged husband Johnny Depp.
Fri 03 June 2016
Izzard honoured for outstanding achievement
03/06/2016 … Eddie Izzard has won the outstanding achievement accolade at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts awards.
Long to reign over us...
03/06/2016 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its royal family comedy The Windsors.
Now it's Victoria (Wood) station
03/06/2016 … • 'John Dowie is the archaeopteryx of alternative comedy, in that the fossil record makes no sense without him.
© HBO When John met Jerry
03/06/2016 … JERRY SEINFELD is to chat to John Oliver in the next season of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.