© BBC Comedians prepare a 'panto for our times'
17/10/2016 … Fresh Meat actress Charlotte Ritchie is to star in a new alternative comedy 'panto for our times', debuting in London this Christmas.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 17 October 2016
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© ITV/Big Talk Cold Feet to return
17/10/2016 … ITV has ordered another series of Cold Feet following its successful return after 13 years.
Sun 16 October 2016
Saturday Night Live should be shut down
16/10/2016 … Long-running American comedy show Saturday Night Live is part of the media ‘rigging’ the American Presidential election and should be axed, Donald Trump has…
Sat 15 October 2016
© Rose d'Or Revealed: John Cleese's new BBC comedy
15/10/2016 … More details have emerged of John Cleese’s first BBC comedy for almost 40 years.
Watch the fur fly...
15/10/2016 … The week's best comedy on demand:MascotsChristopher Guest doesn't exactly break his mould with his latest mockumentary, set like Best in Show or A Mighty Wind, in…
Summer Wine's Aunty Wainwright dies
Oh, and Jean Alexander was in Corrie, too
15/10/2016 … Jean Alexander, who played Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine has died at the age of 90.
Fri 14 October 2016
Arnold Brown at 80
Tribute to alternative comedy's elder statesman
14/10/2016 … A star-studded line-up of comedy stars is to celebrate alternative stand-up legend's Arnold Brown's 80th birthday next month.