ITV buys Stephen Fry's US sitcom
The Great Indoors stars Community's Joel McHale
21/09/2016 … ITV2 has brought the rights to American sitcom The Great Indoors, which stars Stephen Fry as an international explorer turned magazine editor.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 21 September 2016
Tue 20 September 2016
The chat-show host with Tourette's
Pilot for teenager Lewis Nickell
20/09/2016 … A teenager with Tourette's Syndrome is piloting a comedy talk show.
Mon 19 September 2016
Channel 4 picks more Flowers
Second series for Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt comedy
19/09/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Flowers with Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt.
Christmas quiz for Alan Carr
Channel 4 announces commission
19/09/2016 … Alan Carr is to present a new audience game show for Channel 4.
Racist joke costs Gazza £2,000
Football ace fined for 'racial abuse'
19/09/2016 … Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been ordered to £2,000 for telling a joke in dubious taste.
© Elisabeth Toll for LundLund Sarah Kendall, the new face of luxury silverwear
Comic in ad campaign for designer brand Georg Jensen
19/09/2016 … Sarah Kendall is one of the new faces of international design company Georg Jensen.
'Work dried up after Love Thy Neighbour'
Plight of the star of the un-PC sitcom
19/09/2016 … He was the star of one of the biggest sitcoms of the Seventies, seen by up to 17million viewers a week.
Trebles all round! Drunk History gets third series
Returning to Comedy Central in 2017
19/09/2016 … Comedy Central has commissioned a third series of Drunk History.