Michael McIntyre is Mr Saturday Night
15/01/2016 … BBC One has signed Michael McIntyre to present a new Saturday night comedy and variety show.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 15 January 2016
Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness pilot sketch show
Test episode to be taped next month
15/01/2016 … Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness are piloting a sketch show together.
Chris Addison's right direction
Comic up for award for helming Veep
15/01/2016 … Chris Addison is up for a Directors Guild of America award for helming an episode of Veep.
Simon Callow to play The Rebel
New sitcom based on The Oldie's cartoon strip
15/01/2016 … Simon Callow is to star in a new sitcom based on The Oldie magazine’s cartoon strip The Rebel.
Sean Hughes to front topical panel show
Raft of new comedies on Irish radio
15/01/2016 … Sean Hughes, Deirdre O'Kane and sketch trio Foil, Arms and Hog are to record comedy shows for Ireland's RTE Radio 1.
Thu 14 January 2016
Netflix signs Miranda Sings
Haters Back Off coming soon...
14/01/2016 … Internet comedy star Miranda Sings has been signed up by Netflix.
'Alternative comedy was driven by hatred of the working class'
...and that's why we have issues of taste, argues Ivor Dembina
14/01/2016 … The idea of offence in stand-up only arose because comedy became more middle-class in the wake of the alternative cabaret boom of the 1980s.
Fags Mags & Bags to return
Sixth series after a three-year absence
14/01/2016 … Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags & Bags is to return to for a sixth series.