Now it's Dr Jo Brand
12/01/2016 … JO BRAND has today picked up her honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 12 January 2016
Mon 11 January 2016
'Remember Bowie's Nazi leanings'
Robert Newman strikes a 'dissonant note' on stage
11/01/2016 … Comedian Rob Newman has reacted to the wave of posthumous admiration for David Bowie, by criticising the cultural icon’s flirtation with Nazism.
Stone me! Missing Hancocks axed
BBC pulls plug with ten episodes still unrecorded
11/01/2016 … Radio 4 has axed its production of The Missing Hancocks after two series.
Comedians address the Cambridge Union
Following in prestigious footsteps...
11/01/2016 … Comedians including Janey Godley and Kate Smurthwaite are to debate romance in the Cambridge Union.
© Amanda Sims New radio series for John Shuttleworth
11/01/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of John Shuttleworth’s Lounge Music.
Even a censored subtitle is f***ing offensive
Comedy Central rapped over bad language
11/01/2016 … Comedy Central has again been rapped by Ofcom - this time for offensive subtitles in an episode of its hidden camera show Impractical Jokers which aired in the…
Gervais: I've been asked back to the Globes
Here are some of his gags from last night
11/01/2016 … Ricky Gervais says he's been asked back to host the Golden Globes.
Sun 10 January 2016
Rhod Gilbert to host comedians boxing
10/01/2016 … Rhod Gilbert has been named as the host of the comedians' boxing match next month.