Stewart Lee releases a show on 10in green vinyl
08/08/2016 … Stewart Lee’s 2002 show Pea Green Boat has been re-released – on a 10-inch pea-green vinyl.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 08 August 2016
© BBC/Keiron McCarron Meet the new Are You Being Served? cast
08/08/2016 … Here's the first picture of the new cast of Are You Being Served? The sitcom is being brought back for a one-off special next month as part of the BBC's Landmark…
Sun 07 August 2016
'Culture sells newspapers'
Comedy awards boss calls for more Fringe coverage
07/08/2016 … Edinburgh Comedy Awards producer Nica Burns has called on newspaper editors to support the arts, as in-depth coverage of the Fringe shrinks.
Fri 05 August 2016
Eddie Izzard to play a young Edward VII
Opposite Judi Dench as Victoria
05/08/2016 … Eddie Izzard is to play a young Edward VII in a film starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria.
© Eva Rinaldi / Creative Commons Now Dirty Rotten Scoundrels gets a female reboot
05/08/2016 … First there was Ghostbusters, now Hollywood is to remake Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with female leads.
Book deal for Andrew O'Neill
Comedian to write his history of heavy metal
05/08/2016 … Andrew O’Neill has signed a book deal to write about his passion for heavy metal music.
Fringe show's H2Woe
05/08/2016 … • 'Soldiers and comedians both know that a minute's silence means something went wrong.