2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 08 April 2016
Thu 07 April 2016
Henry Normal leaves Baby Cow
Steve Coogan's business partner returns to performing
07/04/2016 … Comedy producer Henry Normal is to leave Baby Cow, the company he founded with Steve Coogan 17 years ago.
Bring The Noise is silenced
Sky cancels music quiz after one series
07/04/2016 … Sky 1 has cancelled its music quiz Bring The Noise.
Noel Fielding belongs in a Museum
07/04/2016 … Noel Fielding is to take over from Sarah Millican as the curator on the next series of Radio 4’s Museum of Curiosity.
Harry Hill cooks up a new Sky TV food show
...and developing a sitcom for the BBC
07/04/2016 … Harry Hill is to front a new series for Sky 1 that’s part chat show and part fake cookery programme.
Comedian faces jail for insulting Turkish president
Because it's against GERMAN law
07/04/2016 … A comedian could be jailed for insulting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Wed 06 April 2016
Chummy's back!
Miranda Hart returns to Call The Midwife
06/04/2016 … Miranda Hart is to return to Call The Midwife.
I won't pay my TV licence for this awful comedy
Comic makes a stance after HIS show isn't commissioned
06/04/2016 … Irish comedian Dave McSavage is refusing to pay his licence fee because he says the comedy put out by state broadcaster RTE is so terrible, he'd rather go to…