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2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 31 December 2016
New Year honour for Mrs Barbara Nice
...or rather her creator, Janice Connolly
31/12/2016 … The woman behind comedy character Mrs Barbara Nice has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours.
© Google Free Festival wins back the Counting House
Gilded Balloon experiment lasts just one year
31/12/2016 … Free shows are to return to Edinburgh Fringe venue The Counting House in 2017.
Fri 30 December 2016
Tweets of the year 2016
30/12/2016 … There’s no Weekly Trivia File today… but instead we’ve gone back through the Tweets of The Week to find our favourites from 2016:JanuaryCarving you & your…
© BBC/Scott Kershaw 
Arise Sir Doddy
30/12/2016 … Ken Dodd has become a knight in the New Year’s Honours List.
Tue 27 December 2016
© BBC Farewell, Nana
Royle Family's Liz Smith dies at 95
27/12/2016 … Tributes have been paid to The Royle Family’s Liz Smith, who has died at the age of 95.
Garry Shandling died of a blood clot
27/12/2016 … Garry Shandling died from a blood clot, it has been reported.
Sat 24 December 2016
Krampus, Cunk and Cox
24/12/2016 … The comedy week ahead…Saturday December 24TV: In the 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown Christmas special, Sean Lock and Kathy Burke take on Jon Richardson and Russell…
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ There's a lot of love for this podcast...
24/12/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Fri 23 December 2016
NOT Peter Kay, just a fat bloke
23/12/2016 … • 'I live with this constant fear: When am I going to be unpopular? Have I only got 15 minutes of fame? And have I only got seven minutes left now?' Miranda Hart.
© BBC Bob Monkhouse's last gig
BBC to air intimate show, performed to comedians
23/12/2016 … The BBC is to broadcast Bob Monkhouse’s last recorded gig – an intimate performance to an audience full of other comedians.
James Acaster writes his first book
'Classic scrapes' from his life
23/12/2016 … James Acaster is writing a collection of self-deprecating comic anecdotes, entitled James Acaster's Classic Scrapes.
Thu 22 December 2016
© Independent Domestic Abuse Services Sitcom star gives £10k to domestic abuse charity
Generosity of Mrs Brown’s TV 'son'
22/12/2016 … Mrs Brown’s Boys star Rory Cowan has donated £10,000 to a domestic abuse charity.
Rich pickings in Kiwi comedy awards
22/12/2016 … BRITISH stand-up Rich Wilson has been named best international guest at the New Zealand Comedy Festival.
Did Jim Davidson call Michael McIntyre a c***?
22/12/2016 … Jim Davidson has denied launching a four-letter insult at Michael McIntyre in a press interview.
Liam Williams to star in YouTubers parody
With a host of alternative comedy names
22/12/2016 … Liam Williams has landed his own BBC Three series spoofing celebrity vloggers, Chortle can reveal.
Wed 21 December 2016
Dara goes Stargazing again
21/12/2016 … DARA O BRIAIN is to return for a seventh season on Stargazing Live next year.
Tape Face goes to Vegas
Four-month residency on the Strip
21/12/2016 … Tape Face has secured a four-month residency in Las Vegas next year, following his success on America's Got Talent.
Comedy record sets a comedy record
21/12/2016 … The world's smallest comedy album has been created – just an inch and a half (40mm) in diameter.
7 comedies on 12th Night for Radio 4
Flurry of pilots celebrate 'spirit of misrule'
21/12/2016 … Radio 4 is to air six new comedy pilots – and a version of Twelfth Night from the Now Show team –all on the same day.
Tue 20 December 2016
© Patty Mooney, Crystal Pyramid Productions Jerry Lewis just did *the* most awkward interview...
Watch the agony as grumpy comic clams up
20/12/2016 … Jerry Lewis has a reputation for being awkward and grumpy… and a new car-crash of an interview will do nothing to dispel that.
© BBC Sue Perkins goes up the Ganges
20/12/2016 … Sue Perkins is to travel The Ganges in a new series for BBC One.
Revealed: who won the 2016 Comics' Comic awards
Jeff Innocent leads the honours
20/12/2016 … The comedy circuit has named its winners of this year’s Comics’ Comic Awards.
Comedians wallow in Pop Sludge
4Music branches out into new comedy
20/12/2016 … One of Britain’s most-watched music TV channels has commissioned its first comedy show.
Mon 19 December 2016
'I'm absolutely bloody terrified'
Mark Dolan signs up for The Jump
19/12/2016 … Comic Mark Dolan has signed up to Channel 4’s winter sports reality show The Jump.
© BBC / Alan Peebles BBC makes another visit to Two Doors Down
Third series commissioned for 2017
19/12/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a third series of Scottish sitcom Two Doors Down.
Jim Davidson becomes full-time charity boss
...but it doesn't mean he's quitting stand-up
19/12/2016 … Jim Davidson is to become the full-time chief executive of veterans’ charity Care After Combat next year.
Greg Davies's troublesome nipples
Topless shot banned from Amazon
19/12/2016 … Greg Davies's nipples have landed him in trouble.
Farewell to the forums
19/12/2016 … CHORTLE's forums will be closing in the New Year.
Sun 18 December 2016
Sat 17 December 2016
Where a Partridge flies
17/12/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Fri 16 December 2016
© BBC/Matt Stronge Prince Charles does Just A Minute
Royal support as panel show turns 50
16/12/2016 … Prince Charles is to appear on Just A Minute.
New questions over Jimmy Carr's tax affairs
HMRC probe into avoidance scheme
16/12/2016 … Jimmy Carr’s tax arrangements have come under the spotlight again following an investigation into a scheme he invested in.
New book deal for Viv Groskop
16/12/2016 … Comedian and writer Viv Groskop has signed a new book deal for a ‘literary self-help memoir’.
Comedy Central sets air date for Chris Ramsey Show
16/12/2016 … Comedy Central has announced a launch date for The Chris Ramsey Show: Wednesday January 11.
© C4 Adam and Joe at 20
16/12/2016 … Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are this month celebrating the 20th anniversary of their Adam & Joe Show launching on Channel 4 - on December 6, 1996 to be precise.
The most optimistic use of the word 'celebrity' ever...
16/12/2016 … • 'I have some sensual love-making scenes which are really weird to do on film… but I quite liked it.
© BBC/Hat Trick/Richard Kendal 'Trousergate' MP replaced by a handbag
Have I Got News For You joke at Nicky Morgan's expense
16/12/2016 … 'Trousergate' MP Nicky Morgan is to be replaced by a handbag on tonight's Have I Got News For You.
Thu 15 December 2016
Dom Joly to go on University Challenge
15/12/2016 … DOM JOLY is to appear on University Challenge.
Seann Walsh shoots a road movie
15/12/2016 … Seann Walsh has made a tour film for BBC Three.
© BBC/Open Mike/Ellis O’Brien Jack Dee's Helpdesk is back
15/12/2016 … Jack Dee’s Helpdesk is to return – including a Donald Trump special.
Radio 4 Extra to look at the people behind the comedy
Producers and agents in new series
15/12/2016 … Producers, agents and commissioners are to reveal the stories behind classic shows in a new Radio 4 Extra series.
Wed 14 December 2016
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit gets two more series
Dave inserts coins to continue...
14/12/2016 … Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit is returning for two more series, Chortle can reveal.
Jason Manford creates his own kids' cartoon
Daisy & Ollie TV series to take on Peppa Pig
14/12/2016 … Jason Manford is taking on 'fat shaming' Peppa Pig with his own children's cartoon.
Who is the biggest-selling comedian of the year?
14/12/2016 … Micky Flanagan is the biggest-selling artist of 2016.
Two more series for Not Going Out
Lee Mack's sitcom to run till season 10 - at least
14/12/2016 … The BBC has commissioned two more series of Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out – taking the total up to ten.
'Trousergate' MP drops out of Have I Got News For You
'Unforeseen circumstances' for Nicky Morgan
14/12/2016 … Conservative MP Nicky Morgan has pulled out of Have I Got News For You, amid a row over her criticism of Theresa May's expensive wardrobe.
Ross Noble horror film gets distribution deal
14/12/2016 … Ross Noble’s new horror film has landed a distribution deal.
C4 buys US comedy Search Party
14/12/2016 … Channel 4 has brought the rights to US comedy Search Party to air on its All 4 on-demand service.
Tue 13 December 2016
Have you heard the Brexit joke? It's a cracker
13/12/2016 … A Brexit gag has won this year’s competition to find the best topical Christmas cracker joke.
Morgana pulls out of comedy play
13/12/2016 … Morgana Robinson has pulled out of a new play, citing ‘unforeseen personal reasons’.
Mathew Horne joins The Miser
As do Katy Wix, Andi Osho and Ellie White
13/12/2016 … Mathew Horne has joined Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack in the West End revival of Moliere comedy The Miser.
Mon 12 December 2016
David Mitchell and Jo Brand join Peppa Pig cast
12/12/2016 … David Mitchell and Jo Brand have joined Peppa Pig as the cartoon heads to the big screen.
All-star cast for Britcom Finding Your Feet
12/12/2016 … Filming has wrapped on the London shoot of new British comedy film Finding Your Feet.
© CBS James Corden scoops a Critics' Choice Award
...but Fleabag goes away empty-handed
12/12/2016 … James Corden won a Critics’ Choice award in the States.
Mr Bean makes a movie comeback
Rowan Atkinson stars in a Chinese comedy
12/12/2016 … Mr Bean is making his movie comeback – in a Chinese film.
Angela Barnes to host Newsjack
12/12/2016 … Angela Barnes is to host the next series of Radio 4 Extra’s satirical sketch show Newsjack, airing next year.
Sun 11 December 2016
© BBC Revealed: True extent of panel show sexism
Mock The Week has never had TWO women on
11/12/2016 … New research has proved the astonishing gender bias in British comedy panel shows.
Wibbley Wobbley to become scrappy wappy
Farewell to Malcolm Hardee's pub
11/12/2016 … The floating pub once run by alternative comedy legend Malcolm Hardee is set to be broken up for scrap.
Sat 10 December 2016
Now it's *Doctor* Henry Normal
10/12/2016 … Top comedy producer Henry Normal has received an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University.
Fri 09 December 2016
Glee Club fight rumbles on
Supreme Court rules on comedy venues vs TV show
09/12/2016 … The legal battle between the Glee comedy club and the TV series of the same name is to go through another round.
ITV set to adapt Dawn French's novel
Script work under way on A Tiny Bit Marvellous
09/12/2016 … Dawn French’s debut novel is being made into a drama series for ITV.
Jo Brand joins the Kitten Rescuers
09/12/2016 … Jo Brand is to front a one-off show called Kitten Rescuers for Channel 5.
© Toby Hancock/Rex Is this the best comedy bill of 2017?
Rowan Atkinson heads star-studded benefit
09/12/2016 … Rowan Atkinson is to make a rare live appearance at a star-studded comedy benefit show next year.
© Steve Ullathorne John Dowie's memoirs WILL be published
Pioneering comic hits his crowdfunding target
09/12/2016 … The memoirs of alternative comedy forerunner John Dowie are to be published after the former comedian hit his crowdfunding target.
You can't say 'scrotum' in front of Camilla
09/12/2016 … •‘I am the funniest man in the world and I don’t like any other comedians.
Billy Connolly retakes DVD No 1 slot
09/12/2016 … Billy Connolly has retaken his position at the top of the stand-up DVD chart.
Thu 08 December 2016
For the glory of Greece!
Anglo-Greek Katerina Vrana makes finals of Funniest Person in The World
08/12/2016 … Anglo-Greek comedian Katerina Vrana has made it to the finals of a competition to find the funniest person in the world.
© Andrew Pearce (@andyyido) Twitter David Brent choir seranades commuters
08/12/2016 … A choir calling themselves the 12 Disciples Of David Brent entertained commuters at London’s St Pancras station today.
More lost Pete & Dud sketches found
Lost material to air on Channel 4
08/12/2016 … More lost Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketches have been unearthed after more than 50 years.
© BBC BBC to air new Peter Kay's Car Share scene
Christmas-themed clip with Sian Gibson
08/12/2016 … The BBC is to broadcast a new sketch from Peter Kay’s Car Share.
Joe Lycett joins Chuckle Brothers on Blankety Blank
08/12/2016 … JOE LYCETT and the Chuckle Brothers are among the panel on the revived version of Blankety Blank.
New BBC show for Sue Perkins
Based on local newspaper headlines
08/12/2016 … Sue Perkins is piloting a new topical comedy show with a difference – all the news stories will be taken from local newspapers.
Wed 07 December 2016
Sara Pascoe's Animal wins a QI endorsement
'One of the ten most interesting books of the year'
07/12/2016 … Sara Pascoe’s Animal has been named one of the ten most interesting books of the year by QI.
600 of Limmy's Vines to be screened in one show
07/12/2016 … A TOTAL of 600 Vines created by Glaswegian comic Limmy are to be screened as part of the London Short Film Festival.
© BBC BBC orders Home From Home to series
Johnny Vegas pilot picked up for BBC One
07/12/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a full series of Johnny Vegas comedy Home From Home.
Tue 06 December 2016
Des Bishop to appear on Ireland's Strictly Come Dancing
'Judge me if you want... I love it'
06/12/2016 … Des Bishop is to appear on Ireland's version of Strictly Come Dancing.
© Andy Hollingworth Who is Britain's hardest working comedian?
Romesh Ranganathan tops the poll
06/12/2016 … Romesh Ranganathan has been named the hardest-working comedian of the year.
© BBC Porridge's 'Grouty' dies at 93
Peter Vaughan was in Citizen Smith and Game Of Thrones
06/12/2016 … Peter Vaughan, who played Grouty in Porridge, has died at the age of 93.
Comedy Loft venues sold
Part of £39m deal with owners of Yates
06/12/2016 … The Comedy Loft chain of venues is to change hands again.
US Writers' Guild nominees announced
...and look at the size of those writing teams!
06/12/2016 … The writing teams behind shows such as Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Veep and Inside Amy Schumer – and even Ricky Gervais’s insult-laden Golden Globes…
Are these Britain's best-written comedies?
Writers' Guild nominations out
06/12/2016 … Plebs, People Just Do Nothing and Fleabag have been named as the best-written TV sitcoms of the year.
Book parody dropped over 'racism' storm
Were spoofs 'hateful' – or critics too keen for a ban?
06/12/2016 … They are the biggest phenomenon in publishing at the moment.
Comedian dodges gunfire during stand-up set
06/12/2016 … Dramatic footage has been posted of a comedian ducking gunfire during her stand-up set.
Mon 05 December 2016
Amy Schumer suddenly pulls Australian dates
05/12/2016 … Amy Schumer has cancelled her Australian and New Zealand stand-up tour at the last minute.
Absolute Radio rapped over Frank Skinner show
05/12/2016 … Absolute Radio has been rapped after Frank Skinner played an offensive song on his Saturday-morning show.
Rare Les Dawson footage to be aired
As ITV pays tribute this Christmas
05/12/2016 … ITV is to pay tribute to Les Dawson in two hour-long shows this Christmas.
Andy Parsons announces 2017 tour
05/12/2016 … ANDY PARSONS has announced a new 2017 stand-up tour.
© BBC Farewell to Uncle
Nick Helm sitcom to end after next season
05/12/2016 … Nick Helm’s BBC Three comedy Uncle is to end after the next series.
Fez up: Museum finally lands Tommy Cooper's hat
Memorabilia goes on display at the V&A
05/12/2016 … One of Tommy Cooper's fezzes is to go on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Caroline Aherne left no will
So £500,000 estate goes to her mum
05/12/2016 … Caroline Aherne died without making a will, it has been revealed today.
Sun 04 December 2016
Joel Dommett is I'm A Celeb's runner-up
04/12/2016 … He entered the I’m A Celebrity… jungle a virtual unknown.
© BBC/Talkback Thames/Brian J Ritchie BBC budget cuts forced Stephen Fry off QI
04/12/2016 … Stephen Fry was forced out of the QI chair because of BBC budget cuts, Alan Davies has claimed.
Sarah Millican tops DVD chart
04/12/2016 … Sarah Millican has topped the DVD chart in the week most stand-up titles have been released.
© Geraint Lewis 
Jason Byrne just presented Sunday Brunch
...and divided Twitter right down the middle
04/12/2016 … Fans are calling for Jason Byrne to become a full-time presenter on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch when he stood in for usual host Tim Lovejoy this morning.
Dave Johns lands his first acting award
04/12/2016 … Comedian Dave Johns has won his first major acting award.
Sat 03 December 2016
How Washington is run by alien brain-sucking ants...
03/12/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
© C4 Comedy star contracted Zika virus
...while filming Death In Paradise
03/12/2016 … Fresh Meat star Tony Gardner has revealed that he contracted the Zika virus while shooting Death In Paradise.
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Take a peek inside No 9
New pictures from the Christmas episode
03/12/2016 … The BBC has released these images from the new Inside No 9.
Could Amy Schumer play Barbie?
03/12/2016 … Amy Schumer could be the new Barbie.
Trump and the Muslim...
Comedian wound up next to Donald's son on a UK flight
03/12/2016 … It must have been a shock for him, given the way his father foments hate and distrust of Muslims – but Eric Trump found himself next to a comedian called Mohammed…
Fri 02 December 2016
Secombe replaces 'Tony Hancock'
History repeats itself as Harry's son steps in to R4's Missing Hancocks
02/12/2016 … Harry Secombe’s son Andrew is to follow in his father’s footsteps – by appearing in Hancock’s Half Hour.
© BBC Farewell to a ‘brilliant farceur’
John Cleese pays tribute to Andrew Sachs
02/12/2016 … John Cleese has paid tribute to the 'brilliant farceur' Andrew Sachs, after he died at the age of 86.
© BBC Five-hour tribute to Andrew Sachs
Gold tears up its schedules for Fawlty special
02/12/2016 … The Gold TV channel has torn up its weekend schedules to pay tribute to Andrew Sachs – as BBC One also reruns a Fawlty Towers classic tonight.
Jon Richardson to host The One Show
Comic joins Alex Jones tonight
02/12/2016 … Jon Richardson is to become a One Show host.
Last orders at the Comedy Cafe
London venue to close after 26 years
02/12/2016 … London’s Comedy Cafe is to close at the end of the year, after 26 years in business The venue in Shoreditch, East London, has lost its lease after being…
Dapper Laughs dropped from tech conference
Apparently organisers didn't know his reputation...
02/12/2016 … If you know one thing about Dapper Laughs, it’s that he got in hot water for sexist jokes that were accused of promoting ‘rape culture’.
_jim_jefferies_16.jpg "New US TV show for Jim Jefferies | 'Dark social commentary' for Comedy Central")
New US TV show for Jim Jefferies
'Dark social commentary' for Comedy Central
02/12/2016 … Jim Jefferies is making a new series for America’s Comedy Central.
Thu 01 December 2016
Andrew Sachs dies at 86
Fawlty Towers' Manuel had dementia
01/12/2016 … Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has died at the age of 86.
Comic lands a book deal - after asking for one on Twitter
Three-title contract for Olaf Falafal
01/12/2016 … Comedian Olaf Falafel has signed a three-book deal – less than 48 hours after pleading for a publisher on Twitter.
Toyah Willcox stars in new film about an aspiring stand-up
01/12/2016 … Toyah Willcox is to appear in a new film about an aspiring comedian, written by playwright John Godber.
Ricky Gervais announces stand-up dates
Humanity may be his final tour
01/12/2016 … Ricky Gervais has announced the first dates of his new stand-up tour, Humanity.
Wipers Times heads to West End
01/12/2016 … The stage adaptation of Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times is heading to the West End.
© Joella Marano / Creative Commons Sacha Baron Cohen to play a dodgy billionaire
Capitalist satire from Michael Winterbottom
01/12/2016 … Sacha Baron Cohen is to play an immoral billionaire businessman in his next movie.
Wed 30 November 2016
© Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo Peter Cook's widow Lin dies at 71
Days after release of latest film
30/11/2016 … Peter Cook’s widow Lin has died at the age of 71.
Harry Hill goes to jail
30/11/2016 … Harry Hill is to play a prison governor in a new BBC sitcom.
Peter Kay car shares with Johnnie Walker
Hear a preview of Radio 2 special
30/11/2016 … Radio 2 is to dedicate two hours to Peter Kay this Christmas.
© C4 Trigger Happy returns to TV
And who's on Big Fat Quiz and Cats Do Countdown?
30/11/2016 … Trigger Happy TV is returning to Channel 4 for a one-off Christmas Eve special.
Air date confirmed for the new Inside No 9
...plus other BBC Christmas comedy highlights
30/11/2016 … The new Inside No 9 will air on December 27, the BBC has announced.
Peter Kay has £28million in the bank
30/11/2016 … PETER KAY is sitting on £27.
Tue 29 November 2016
© Angela George/CC BY-SA 3.0 Penn & Teller announce UK dates
First British gigs in three years
29/11/2016 … Comedy magicians Penn and Teller have announced a run of UK dates.
Russell Howard signs major Sky deal
14-part entertainment show for 2017
29/11/2016 … Russell Howard has signed a two-year deal to write and star in a new entertainment series for Sky 1.
'Making the ordinary look beautiful'
Comedy shows win RTS craft awards
29/11/2016 … People Just Do Nothing, Murder In Successville and Flowers were among the winners at the Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards last night.
Putting his money where his mouth is...
Eddie Izzard spent £36k on EU referendum campaign
29/11/2016 … Eddie Izzard was officially registered as a Remain campaigner in the EU – and spent more than £36,000 of his own money on the cause.
Classic comedies on the 'at risk' list
Race to preserve Python precursors
29/11/2016 … Monty Python forerunners Do Not Adjust Your Set and At Last The 1948 Show are at risk of being lost forever.
Comedian apologises over sick plane crash joke
29/11/2016 … Australian comedian Adam Rozenbachs has apologised after cracking a sick joke about today’s plane crash in the Colombian mountains.
John Bishop announces Irish dates
29/11/2016 … JOHN BISHOP has announced a string of Ireland dates for next year.
Mon 28 November 2016
Another Python reunion
(Kinda, as Sanjeev Bhaskar joins Palin and Gilliam)
28/11/2016 … Monty Python members Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin are to reunite to talk about their work together – and play out some classic British gameshows.
Britain gets a new improv comedy venue
100-seater dedicated to the genre
28/11/2016 … Britain is to get a second venue dedicated to improvised comedy.
Will Joe Pasquale play Frank Spencer?
28/11/2016 … JOE PASQUALE will reportedly play Frank Spencer in a stage version Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em.
Sun 27 November 2016
Midlands Comedy Award winners announced
27/11/2016 … Veteran stand-up Duncan Oakley has been named best act in the Midlands Comedy Awards.
You can't spell Lolly without LOL...
27/11/2016 … Sunday November 27LIVE IN LONDON: Absolute Radio are promoting a big benefit show at the London Palladium in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, hosted by their own…
Kurupt FM: The movie
Plans afoot for film version of People Just Do Nothing
27/11/2016 … A film version of People Just Do Nothing could be on the cards, its executive producer has revealed.
It's Absolutely over
No more Ab Fabs, says Jennifer Saunders
27/11/2016 … There will be no sequel to the Ab Fab movie, Jennifer Saunders has revealed.
Sat 26 November 2016
Fri 25 November 2016
Jason Manford to host Bigheads game show for ITV
Like a satirical It's A Knockout
25/11/2016 … Jason Manford is to present a new primetime weekend gameshow for ITV.
© ITV David Walliams to host ITV's Nightly Show
Ambitious new format launches next year
25/11/2016 … David Walliams is to be the first host of ITV’s ambitious new daily talk and comedy show.
'He slipped his finger into my ring'
25/11/2016 … • ’I did a handful of jokes about cake and now people think I never go near a vegetable.
Danny Baker writes his first children's book
25/11/2016 … Danny Baker is to write his first children’s book, Lucie Goose.
Thu 24 November 2016
Steven Berkoff co-stars in Dapper Laughs movie
24/11/2016 … He is an acclaimed, and intense, actor who has appeared in some of the classics of international cinema and electrified the elite theatrical world.
Incroyable! Peter and Bambi Heaven do France's Got Talent
24/11/2016 … British-based comedian Asher Treleaven has reached the semi-final of the French version of Britain's Got Talent – in a spoof magic act with his ex-wife.
New ITV show for Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness
24/11/2016 … Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness are making a movie spoof sketch show for ITV, Chortle can reveal.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Fleabag bags more award nominations
24/11/2016 … Fleabag is up for three major TV awards.
Jimmy Carr revives Your Face Or Mine
Comedy Central returns to 2002 format
24/11/2016 … Jimmy Carr is reviving a decade-old E4 game show.
Wed 23 November 2016
Jimmy Carr set to be a TV judge
New show seeks plaintiffs and defendants
23/11/2016 … Jimmy Carr is to judge real-life disputes in a new TV show now being developed.
© Hungry McBear / BBC BBC renews Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
23/11/2016 … Michael McIntyre’s Big Show is to return to BBC One for a third series next year.
Grimsby: Not that popular
Sacha Baron Cohen’s film is one of 2016's biggest flops
23/11/2016 … Sacha Baron Cohen’s film Grimsby has been named one of the biggest box-office flops of the year.
Whoopi Goldberg brings stand-up show to UK
23/11/2016 … WHOOPI GOLDBERG is coming to the UK to perform stand-up.
Tue 22 November 2016
Just A Minute does panto
... and other Radio 4 Christmas comedy highlights
22/11/2016 … The Just A Minute team are to star in their own panto.
Lenny Henry becomes a university chancellor
And vows 'education is a right, not an accident of birth’
22/11/2016 … Sir Lenny Henry is to be formally sworn in as chancellor of Birmingham City University later today, and will use his inaugural address to say that ‘education…
© BBC/House of Tomorrow Philomena Cunk returns!
Christmas special for Diane Morgan's character
22/11/2016 … Philomena Cunk is returning to BBC Two for a Christmas special.
Who'll be head of the heard?
Nominees announced for radio comedy awards
22/11/2016 … Tom Wrigglesworth, Josh Howie and Mae Martin are among the nominees for a prestigious radio comedy award.
Hoff The Record wins an Emmy
22/11/2016 … HOFF THE RECORD, Dave’s fake documentary show about David Hasselhoff’s career comeback, has won the international Emmy for best comedy.
James Corden to host the Grammys
22/11/2016 … James Corden is to host the Grammy Awards.
How Kenny Everett inspired the Beatles
22/11/2016 … Kenny Everett’s friendship with The Beatles is to be examined in a new radio documentary.
Mon 21 November 2016
Dave Chappelle to release THREE stand-up specials
21/11/2016 … Dave Chappelle is to release three stand-up specials next year – all on Netflix.
Raised by Wolves crowdfunder fails
Caitlin Moran falls £120,000 short of target
21/11/2016 … Caitlin Moran’s bid to crowdfund more episodes of her Channel 4 comedy Raised by Wolves has failed.
Iain Stirling wins a kids' Bafta
...and, no, it's not for Love Island
21/11/2016 … Iain Stirling, the comedian who narrates one of TV’s raunchiest shows, has won a Children’s Bafta.
Filming starts on new Outnumbered
See how the kids have changed in the first new episode for three years
21/11/2016 … Filming has begun on the new Outnumbered Christmas special – the first new episode of the family sitcom in nearly three years.
© Home Office / Creative Commons Now Ofcom raps Queen jokes
Fresh censure for Radio 4 panel show
21/11/2016 … The episode of Radio 4 panel show Don’t Make Me Laugh that joked about the Queen’s sex life on her 90th birthday has been rapped by broadcast watchdog…
© Hungry McBear / BBC Michael McIntyre beats X Factor
21/11/2016 … Michael McIntyre proved more popular than X Factor on Saturday night.
© BBC/Roughcut Sexy Murder gets a bigger release
Rich Fulcher's BBC spoof comes to iPlayer
21/11/2016 … The BBC is re-releasing Sexy Murder, its spoof of true crime series such as Making A Murderer and The Serial podcast, as a single half-hour episode.
© BBC New BBC sitcom for Angus Deayton
Playing a middle-aged man in a houseshare
21/11/2016 … Angus Deayton is to star in a new radio sitcom.
Sun 20 November 2016
© BBC/King Bert/Ray Burmiston 
Was Peter Kay homophobic on Strictly?
Viewers split over Judge Rinder joke
20/11/2016 … Peter Kay has been accused of making a homophobic joke on Strictly Come Dancing last night.
Something's afoot with Seann Walsh
Comic cancel gig after his foot mysterious swells ip
20/11/2016 … Seann Walsh has been forced to cancel a gig tonight, after his foot mysteriously swelled up, leaving him in agony.
Earthquake stops Fawlty Towers tour
20/11/2016 … A touring version of Fawlty Towers has been cancelled – with producers citing earthquake damage as the region.
Joel Dommett flirts with Carol Vorderman
20/11/2016 … Joel Dommett and Carol Vorderman have stepped up their flirtatious friendship in I'm A Celebrity.
Sat 19 November 2016
10 of the best stand-up shows on NextUp
19/11/2016 … As British comedy subscription service NextUp launched this week, we round up ten of the best shows available on the platform, in this week's comedy on demand special.
Dom Joly takes down another troll
Twitter user reported to police
19/11/2016 … Dom Joly has reported a Twitter troll to police after he made comments wishing his children dead.
Fri 18 November 2016
© Andy Hollingworth Romesh Ranganathan pilots BBC satire show
That’s It For The Week promises 'large scale comedy'
18/11/2016 … Romesh Ranganathan is piloting a new topical comedy show for BBC Two.
Joel Dommett faces his fears
For I'm A Celeb... bushtucker challenge
18/11/2016 … Joel Dommett had to face his fear of heights in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here last night.
Gabriel Iglesias announces UK dates
18/11/2016 … American comedian Gabriel Iglesias has announced a short UK tour next year.
Bridget Christie writes a Brexit sitcom
Script in development for Channel 4
18/11/2016 … Bridget Christie is writing a sitcom about a woman whose life is falling apart.
Sherlock role for Rob Brydon
18/11/2016 … Rob Brydon has joined the new Sherlock Holmes movie.
Simon Amstell directs his first film
18/11/2016 … Simon Amstell has directed his first film, Chortle can reveal.
Girlfriend in a coma...
18/11/2016 … • Got a "I know you! The comedian!" last night.
Thu 17 November 2016
Miriam Margolyes in new BBC comedy
Playing an eccentric mum in Bucket
17/11/2016 … Miriam Margolyes is to star in a new four-part comedy series for BBC Four.
New DVD for Richard Herring
17/11/2016 … RICHARD HERRING’s Happy Now? stand-up DVD has been released on independent label Go Faster Stripe today.
New film-based panel show for Radio 4
Lee Mack and John Thomson as team captains
17/11/2016 … Lee Mack and John Thomson are to be team captains in a new BBC quiz show.
Wed 16 November 2016
BBC to air 12 C-bombs in 70 seconds
Thanks to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
16/11/2016 … The BBC is to court controversy by airing a comedy sketch that drops the C-bomb 12 times in 70 seconds.
New York, and old York, hail Victoria Wood
16/11/2016 … Tributes are being paid to Victoria Wood in both York and New York next month.
Jonathan Pie to play the London Palladium
Spoof news reporter's star on the rise
16/11/2016 … Fake news reporter Jonathan Pie is to play the London Palladium.
Danny Baker IS joining I'm A Celeb...
Despite his earlier protestations
16/11/2016 … Danny Baker is set to enter the I'm A Celebrity jungle – despite his earlier protestations.
David Baddiel hosts Penguin book podcast
Johnny Marr is his first guest
16/11/2016 … David Baddiel has joined the official Penguin books podcast as a host.
Tue 15 November 2016
© C4 C4 Backs Mitchell & Webb's new series
15/11/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s new comedy, Back.
Spielberg's studio buys Mark Watson book
Graphic novel to be adapted for the screen
15/11/2016 … Steven Spielberg’s film company has bought the rights to one of Mark Watson’s books.
A 'Netflix' for new UK comedy
NextUp launches with dozens of stand-up specials
15/11/2016 … Dozens of stand-up specials from comedians have been made available on a new Netflix-style video-on-demand service dedicated to British comedy, Chortle can reveal.
Caitlin Moran: TV has abandoned working-class comedy
15/11/2016 … Caitlin Moran has claimed that TV no longer makes comedy about working-class characters.
Peter Kay holds Q&A for cancer sufferer
15/11/2016 … Peter Kay is holding a Q&A session in aid of a cancer sufferer.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Fleabag up for US gongs
Shortlisted in the Critics' Choice awards
15/11/2016 … Fleabag and its creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge are up for two Critics’ Choice Awards in the States.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures New TV series for Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge
'Cat-and-mouse' thriller for BBC America
15/11/2016 … Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to write a dramatic thriller for American TV.
© BBC Which comedians are on Michael McIntyre's Big Show
15/11/2016 … Michael McIntyre has revealed some the comedians who will be appearing on the new series of his Big Show.
Rory McGrath charged with stalking
15/11/2016 … RORY McGrath has been charged with stalking a woman for 14 months.
Mon 14 November 2016
Lee Mack to make his West End acting debut
14/11/2016 … Lee Mack is to make his West End debut in a revival of Molière’s classic comedy The Miser.
Torta o muerte?*
Eddie Izzard starts performing in Spanish
14/11/2016 … Eddie Izzard is adding a fourth language to his repertoire, as he works on a Spanish version of his Force Majeure stand-up show.
Splitting the room...
Trump gags booed, but rape jokes kill
14/11/2016 … Welcome to comedy in Donald Trump’s divided America.
Simpsons follow up their Trump prediction
14/11/2016 … The Simpsons acknowledged its prediction of a Donald Trump presidency in its blackboard gag last night.
Robin Ince falls foul of Canadian immigration
Comic misses show after visa rule change
14/11/2016 … Robin Ince had to miss a show with astronaut Chris Hadfield this weekend, after falling foul of Canadian immigration.
Chris Ramsey to host Virtually Famous
Another break for I'm A Celeb: Extra Camp presenter
14/11/2016 … Chris Ramsey is to be the new host of E4 panel show Virtually Famous.
Doc Brown gives comedy a break
14/11/2016 … DOC BROWN it to take some time off comedy to revive his hip-hop career.
BBC pilots comedy science show
14/11/2016 … The BBC is piloting a new comedy science show.
Stephen Fry's US comedy is extended
More episodes of The Great Indoors
14/11/2016 … Stephen Fry’s American sitcom has been extended.
Sun 13 November 2016
Micky Flanagan announces new tour
13/11/2016 … Micky Flanagan has announced a new arena tour.
© Lin Cook/BBC Sat 12 November 2016
Comedians dump on Trump
We know comedy on demand. We have the best comedy on demand
12/11/2016 … The week's best comedy on demand.
Bill Cosby plans a comedy comeback
He'll resume his career, say lawyers
12/11/2016 … Bill Cosby expects to pick up his comedy career once the many legal cases alleging sexual assault are settled.
Fri 11 November 2016
The joke it took Jerry Seinfeld seven years to write
11/11/2016 … • 'Comedy has always been the poor cousin of drama, but we are effectively doing drama with jokes.
New tour for Milton Jones
As new Jack Whitehall and Tape Face dates also go on sale
11/11/2016 … Milton Jones has announced a new tour – as tickets have also gone on sale for new Jack Whitehall and Tape Face shows.
Burnistoun duo announce Scottish tour
11/11/2016 … BURNISTOUN creators Robert Florence and Iain Connell, have announced a nine-night Scottish tour of their new live show Uncles, kicking off at the Glasgow Comedy…
Sky confirms new Micky Flanagan series
11/11/2016 … Sky 1 has confirmed Micky Flanagan’s new travelogue series Detours.
Thu 10 November 2016
© Michael Prince Sam Bain pens a 'dark comedy drama' for iPlayer
Produced by the Inbetweeners creators
10/11/2016 … Peep Show creator Sam Bain has written a dark new comedy-drama for the BBC.
Claudia Winkleman presents Do The Right Thing
Strictly host fronts pilot for Channel 4
10/11/2016 … Claudia Winkleman was revealed as host of the Do The Right Thing television pilot last night.
© Tyler Curtis/djtomdog/Creative Commons Stephen Mangan is a bigamist in new Sky comedy
10/11/2016 … Stephen Mangan is to play a bigamist in a new Sky comedy, alongside Austin Powers star Heather Graham, Chortle can reveal.
Pub named in Bill Murray's honour
The new home of London's Angel Comedy Club
10/11/2016 … The new home of London’s Angel comedy club is to be called The Bill Murray.
Joel Dommett 'paid the least' on I'm A Celebrity
10/11/2016 … JOEL DOMMETT is the least well-paid talent in the I’m A Celebrity jungle, according to The Sun.
Wed 09 November 2016
Sketch comedians...
Joe Bor releases a book of stand-up caricatures
09/11/2016 … Comedian Joe Bor has released a book of caricatures he's made of fellow stand-ups.
Richard Ayoade's Travel Man gets two more series
Plus a Christmas special with Rebel Wilson
09/11/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned two more series of Richard Ayoade’s Travel Man: 48 Hours In… The show will also return for a Christmas special…
Out soon: The film Peter Sellers tried to scupper
Ghost In The Noonday Sun was 'a living nightmare'
09/11/2016 … A Peter Sellers film that its own star tried to sabotage is to be released on DVD for the first time.
Tue 08 November 2016
Man Down gets a 4th series
Greg Davies and Co to return next year
08/11/2016 … Channel 4 has ordered a fourth series of Greg Davies sitcom Man Down.
New BBC series from The Revolution Will Be Televised duo
Revolting will mix sketches with pranks
08/11/2016 … The duo behind The Revolution Will Be Televised are returning to BBC Two with a hybrid sketch-prank series.
Before the Big Bang...
Sitcom producers plan a prequel based on Sheldon
08/11/2016 … Plans for a spin-off to the Big Bang Theory are in the pipeline.
What your favourite band reveals about your favourite comedian
08/11/2016 … Coldplay fans like Jimmy Carr; Peter Kay fans like Robbie Williams and Stewart Lee fans like The Fall.
Documentary award for comedy writer Paul Mayhew-Archer
Praise for his Parkinson's film
08/11/2016 … The Vicar of Dibley’s co-writer has won an award for a documentary showing the funny side of Parkinson's disease.
Mon 07 November 2016
Sheridan Smith to star in Jo Brand film
Cast of The More You Ignore Me announced
07/11/2016 … The cast has been announced for Jo Brand’s first film.
© BBC Another Bafta for Mrs Brown's Boys
07/11/2016 … MRS BROWN’S BOYS has won the comedy and entertainment category of the Scottish Baftas for the second year running, ahead of fellow nominees Scot Squad and Two…
Harry Hill pilots a spoof sports show
Prepare to be introduced to Spoot
07/11/2016 … Harry Hill is piloting a comedy about a fictional sport for Radio 4.
© HBO Ted Danson commits to more Curbs
With his wife Mary Steenburgen
07/11/2016 … Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen have signed up to return to Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Sun 06 November 2016
© NZ Police/Creative Commons Hello, police? This comedian's rubbish...
Officers reveal timewasting emergency calls
06/11/2016 … A comedy show was so unfunny that an audience member called the police emergency number to complain.
© Stuart Hogben Mark Watson on the adults who just won't grow up
06/11/2016 … The comedy week ahead.
Sat 05 November 2016
Joel Dommett to join I'm A Celeb...
05/11/2016 … Joel Dommett is to take part in the new series of I’m A Celebrity.
Simpsons renewed for seasons 29 and 30
05/11/2016 … THE FOX network has ordered two more seasons of The Simpsons, taking it through to its 30th series in 2019.
Tape Face announces West End run
05/11/2016 … Innovative silent comedy act Tape Face has announced a seven-week season in London’s West End.
America has another go at Pulling
New remake of Sharon Horgan comedy in the works
05/11/2016 … America is having another bash at adapting Sharon Horgan’s comedy series Pulling.
Fri 04 November 2016
Josh gets a third series
BBC Three renews Widdicombe's comedy
04/11/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a third series of Josh.
© Joella Marano / Creative Commons Send in the Klown
Sacha Baron Cohen to remake Danish comedy
04/11/2016 … Sacha Baron Cohen is set to remake debauched Danish comedy Klown.
Amy Hoggart lands role on American TV
New correspondent on Full Frontal
04/11/2016 … Amy Hoggart has landed a role on a satirical US news show.
Amy Lamé is London's first night czar
Mayor appoints cabaret pioneer
04/11/2016 … Comedian and broadcaster Amy Lamé has been announced as London's first 'night czar'.
Jon Stewart's banned - but Hitler's OK
04/11/2016 … • Inmates in Texas prisons are barred from reading Jon Stewart's book America; A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.
Omid Djalili does Question Time
04/11/2016 … OMID DJALILI is to appear on Question Time next week.
Thu 03 November 2016
C4 orders Jamie Demetriou comedy
Comic to play inept letting agent
03/11/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new six-part comedy series, starring Jamie Demetriou as an incompetent letting agent.
Gold orders a murder-mystery comedy
03/11/2016 … Stand-up Jason Cook is writing a murder-mystery comedy for the Gold channel.
Pay rise for BBC comedy writers
03/11/2016 … Writers of BBC TV comedies are to get a two per cent pay rise next year.
Comics named for Royal Variety show
Performing for Charles and Camilla
03/11/2016 … Alan Davies, Joe Lycett and Rob Beckett are to appear on this year's Royal Variety Performance.
Rob Brydon goes synchronised swimming
03/11/2016 … Rob Brydon has signed up for a new film about male synchronized swimming.
Royal Variety Show books more men in drag than actual female comedians
03/11/2016 … The Royal Variety Performance has featured more male comedians in drag than genuine female stand-ups in the past 20 years.
Wed 02 November 2016
Pun champ leads Midlands Comedy Award nominations
02/11/2016 … Black Country punsmith Masai Graham leads the shortlists for this year’s Midlands Comedy Awards, with four nominees.
Jack Whitehall, Peter Cook and John Shuttleworth
02/11/2016 … JACK and Michael Whitehall are to perform a live version of their TV show backchat – with Michael McIntyre among the guests.
Gadd almighty
Comic named second most important cultural figure in Scotland
02/11/2016 … Richard Gadd has been named the second most influential arts and cultural figure in Scotland.
Tue 01 November 2016
© UKTV Gold Revealed: Who's in Taskmaster series 4
...and there's more than one woman!
01/11/2016 … The comedians taking on ridiculous challenges in the next series of Taskmaster have been revealed.
Dave Johns up for two acting awards
I, Daniel Blake leads BIFA shortlists
01/11/2016 … Dave Johns has been nominated for two British Independent Film awards for his role in I, Daniel Blake.
Filming starts on Ghost Stories
With Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse
01/11/2016 … Paul Whitehouse and Martin Freeman are to star in a movie version of West End hit Ghost Stories.
Paul Merton to host Film 2016
Doc Brown presents an episode too
01/11/2016 … Paul Merton and Doc Brown are to present the BBC’s flagship movie programme Film 2016.
Mon 31 October 2016
'Drunk' Ricky Gervais collects Bafta award
Watch his speech in Los Angeles
31/10/2016 … Ricky Gervais feigned being drunk as he picked up a Bafta award in Los Angeles this weekend.
Only Fools... is the most-watched TV show ever
31/10/2016 … An episode of Only Fools And Horses is the single most-watched programme in the history of British TV.
Is South Africa about to outlaw satire?
Comedians' fears over planned new Bill
31/10/2016 … Comedians fear a planned new law could lead to hefty prison sentences simply for making a joke.
Daniel Kitson misses his own radio show
Captain Bang Bang locked out of his Magic Castle
31/10/2016 … Daniel Kitson missed his own radio show last night - because he couldn't get into the studio.
Christmas special for Inside No 9
31/10/2016 … INSIDE No 9 is to get a Christmas special.
Sun 30 October 2016
Sat 29 October 2016
Peter Kay, before Phoenix Nights
29/10/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Fri 28 October 2016
Danny Baker announces first stand-up tour
Cradle To The Stage hits the road in 2017
28/10/2016 … Broadcaster Danny Baker has announced his first ever stand-up tour.
A real shitstorm
Huge hoo-ha over Barry Cryer's colostomy bag joke
28/10/2016 … A pun Barry Cryer made on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue has been referred to the highest level of the BBC after a listener took offence.
© NBC Will and Grace 'set to return'
Cast and creators in talks with NBC
28/10/2016 … Will & Grace could be making a comebackThe Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the NBC network is in talks about a new ten-episode series.
Rich Hall on the American Election
28/10/2016 … Rich Hall has made a BBC film about the US presidency.
The great nipple cover-up
28/10/2016 … • Jason Byrne says the funniest heckle he ever got was: 'Get off, you're fit!' from someone thinking he was too good-looking to be a comedian• John Robins was…
Thu 27 October 2016
Jim Gaffigan joins Fargo
27/10/2016 … JIM GAFFIGAN has joined the cast of Fargo.
Wed 26 October 2016
Nick Helm joins tech millionaire comedy
With Jonny Sweet and Jim Howick
26/10/2016 … Nick Helm and Jonny Sweet are to star in Channel 4’s new comedy show about young tech millionaires.
© Bafta Bafta hails Tom Davis as a 'Breakthrough Brit'
Along with #HoodDocumentary's Kayode Ewumi
26/10/2016 … Murder in Successville star Tom Davis has been picked as one of the year's brightest new creative talents by Bafta.
Simpsons writer Kevin Curran dies at 59
He previously wrote for Letterman
26/10/2016 … Simpsons writer Kevin Curran has died at the age of 59.
© BBC/Roughcut BBC spoofs Making A Murderer
Rich Fulcher stars in Sexy Murder parody
26/10/2016 … Rich Fulcher is to star in a murder case spoof for BBC Three, Chortle can reveal.
Armstrong and Miller reunite
26/10/2016 … Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong are to reunite for a Radio 4 show.
© BBC/Open Mike/Ellis O'Brien Who's on series 12 of Live At The Apollo
BBC confirms comedian line-ups
26/10/2016 … The BBC has confirmed the broadcast date and line-ups of the new series of Live At The Apollo.
Warm-up king Bobby Bragg dies
He worked on Only Fools and TV Burp
26/10/2016 … Comedian and leading warm-up man Bobby Bragg who has died, more than two years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Tue 25 October 2016
Thomson and Moorhouse check into W's Haunted Hotel
25/10/2016 … COLD FEET star John Thomson and comedian Justin Moorhouse are to take part in Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live.
Released at last! Spike Milligan's Q
Every episode of groundbreaking sketch series out on DVD
25/10/2016 … Every surviving episode of Spike Milligan’s influential sketch series Q is to be released on DVD for the first time.
Nick Mohammed writes children's book
Set in the world of the Magic Circle
25/10/2016 … Nick Mohammed has written a children’s book based around his love of magic.
Simon Bird in lesbian romance!
25/10/2016 … Simon Bird has signed up for a new lesbian rom-com movie that also stars David Tennant.
Mon 24 October 2016
The secret lyrics hidden in Red Dwarf theme
24/10/2016 … A sharp-eared Red Dwarf fan has uncovered lyrics that have been hidden in the show’s instrumental theme tune for more than 25 years.
© C4 America gets a taste for Bad Sugar
Abandoned C4 comedy picked up by Fox
24/10/2016 … A spoof melodramatic soap created by Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong is set to have a new lease of life in the States.
US comedy pioneer Barry Crimmins releases his first stand-up special
24/10/2016 … American alternative comedy legend Barry Crimmins is to release his first ever stand-up special – thanks to Louis CK.
'Taking offence at jokes is stupid'
Stand-ups discuss free speech and comedy
24/10/2016 … Taking offence at jokes displays a ‘self-imposed stupidity’, comedians claimed yesterday.
© BBC A couple of Khans
London mayor to appear in Citizen Khan
24/10/2016 … Sadiq Khan is to make a cameo appearance in Citizen Khan.
Stewart Lee to host jazz radio show
24/10/2016 … STEWART LEE is to become a presenter on a new BBC 'pop-up' radio station dedicated to jazz.
Sun 23 October 2016
© BBC Jimmy Perry dies
23/10/2016 … Dad’s Army co-creator Jimmy Perry has died at the age of 93.
Sat 22 October 2016
Comedy world pays tribute to Kevin Meaney
22/10/2016 … Tributes have been paid to American comedian Kevin Meaney, who has died at the age of 60.
Our guide to Black Mirror series 3
Charlie Brooker's new Netflix episodes
22/10/2016 … There can be only one candidate for our 'on demand' pick this week, as Black Mirror is back, and this time on Netflix.
Fri 21 October 2016
© BBC Comics voice Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
21/10/2016 … David Walliams, Rob Brydon and Tamsin Greig are to lend their voices to an animated version of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes that will air on BBC One this Christmas.
You can't even show a cartoon cock and balls...
21/10/2016 … • 'I don't know many hilarious comics languishing in anonymity.
Thu 20 October 2016
Peter Kay revives Dance For Life
20/10/2016 … Peter Kay is reviving his Dance For Life fundraisers next year.
© BBC Frankie Boyle's Autopsy moves to BBC Two
20/10/2016 … Frankie Boyle's American Autopsy is to be screened on BBC Two.
C4 releases trans comedy series
20/10/2016 … Channel 4 has released a new transgendered comedy series.
© BBC 'A year ago I was selling dope...'
Guz Khan jokes about his comedy turnaround; and Jason Manford on producing TV
20/10/2016 … Guz Khan has joked that he sold cannabis at the same time as being a teacher.
Wed 19 October 2016
Three book deal for Miles Jupp
...starting with Damien Trench's memoirs
19/10/2016 … Miles Jupp has signed a three-book publishing deal.
Radio 4 to showcase regional comedy scenes
New series hosted by Elis James
19/10/2016 … Elis James is to front a new stand-up show for Radio 4 showcasing comedians from different regions of the UK.
© BBC Horrible Histories up for an Emmy
19/10/2016 … HORRIBLE HISTORIES and Hank Zipzer have been nominated for international kids Emmy awards the factual and series categories respectively.
Dara O Briain to write a children's astronomy book
19/10/2016 … Dara O Briain is writing his first children’s book, about the wonders of space.
TV pays tribute to Peter Kay... yet again
Channel 5 retells the much-told story
19/10/2016 … Peter Kay is to be the subject of yet another TV tribute.
Benidorm is now in Mexico
America set to remake the ITV sitcom
19/10/2016 … America is making its own version of Benidorm – based in Mexico.
Comedian brings the internet to Julian Assange
19/10/2016 … Comedian Bobby Mair has come to the aid of Julian Assange after he lost his internet access.
Now THAT's an opening act
Madonna warms up for Amy Schumer
19/10/2016 … Amy Schumer was introduced to the stage by an unusual opening act in New York last night – Madonna.
Tue 18 October 2016
Marlon Davis: I was in a coma for 12 days
Comic speaks of horrific car crash
18/10/2016 … Marlon Davis has revealed he spent 12 days in a coma after a car crash.
Harry Shearer launches Spinal Tap lawsuit
Claiming corporate 'fraud' has robbed him of royalties
18/10/2016 … Harry Shearer has accused film and music giant Vivendi of fraud, after revealing the pitiful amounts of royalties he receives from This Is Spinal Tap.
Save Raised By Wolves: Just £320,000
Caitlin Moran launches ambitious crowdfunding appeal
18/10/2016 … Caitlin Moran and her sister Caroline have launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to make a new series of Raised By Wolves.
Kieran Hodgson pilots Radio 4 sitcom
18/10/2016 … Double Edinburgh comedy award nominee Kieran Hodgson is piloting a new sitcom for Radio 4.
Comedians turn agony aunts
In a new series for the W channel
18/10/2016 … David Baddiel, Ellie Taylor, Matt Richardson and Roisin Conaty are to become agony aunts for a new TV series.
Mon 17 October 2016
© 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.
© 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.
Comics join BBC Asian Network
New show for Mawaan Rizwan and Emily Lloyd-Saini
17/10/2016 … Comedians Mawaan Rizwan and Emily Lloyd-Saini are joining the BBC Asian Network.
© Joeylamb88 | Creative Commons Bovveration!
BBC presenter quotes the wrong catchphrase at Catherine Tate
17/10/2016 … BBC Breakfast presented Charlie Stayt made a major faux pas this morning – when he quoted the wrong catchphrase at Catherine Tate.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Armando Iannucci writes robot comedy
14/10/2016 … Armando Iannucci has written a comedy movie about inept robots trying to take over the world.
New tour for Russell Brand
'Spiritually enlightened or having a mental breakdown?'
14/10/2016 … Russell Brand has unveiled a new tour.
A home with some Pryor history...
14/10/2016 … • 'It's ridiculous to think I would write a piece of work so only the cool people can enjoy it.
You can't see the joins...
Morecambe and Wise statue unveiled in Blackpool
14/10/2016 … The first statue of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise together has been unveiled in Blackpool.
© Bafta Ricky Gervais sells out instantly
14/10/2016 … TICKETS for a Ricky Gervais warm-up gig sold out instantly this morning.
Dawn French: I get vertigo on stage
14/10/2016 … Dawn French has revealed that she suffers debilitating vertigo on stage.
Thu 13 October 2016
© Bafta US gameshow for Ricky Gervais
13/10/2016 … Ricky Gervais is to star in an American gameshow.
Stand boss doesn't get to be SNP's deputy leader
...but Tommy Sheppard's campaign is praised
13/10/2016 … Stand Comedy Club owner Tommy Sheppard has failed in his bid to become deputy leader of the SNP.
Crackanory gets a fourth series
And the eight new storytellers revealed
13/10/2016 … The Dave TV channel has ordered a fourth series of Crackanory - with longer stories than before.
Will TV Do The Right Thing?
13/10/2016 … Comedy podcast Do The Right Thing could be heading for TV.
Comedian CAN appeal his fine over sick joke
Mike Ward's legal fight goes on
13/10/2016 … Canadian comedian Mike Ward has won the right to appeal the court verdict that cost him almost £2,500 for telling a sick joke.
Still Game adds more live dates
13/10/2016 … FORD KIERNAN and Greg Hemphill have announced five more dates for their next run of Still Game at Glasgow's SSE Hydro.
How class plays its part in offensive comedy
...and is the industry just too middle-class?
13/10/2016 … Your reaction to offensive jokes – whether enjoying them or taking umbrage at them – helps you feel a sense of belonging with your social group.
Invisible Dot disappears...
Innovative comedy firm in liquidation
13/10/2016 … Innovative alternative comedy producers The Invisible Dot and their London venue have collapsed.
Chris Rock to film his first special in 9 years
13/10/2016 … Chris Rock is to record his first stand-up special in nine years.
Wed 12 October 2016
8 Out Of 10 Cats to return with new captains
12/10/2016 … 8 Out Of 10 Cats is to return with new team captains Aisling Bea and Rob Beckett.
Miranda Hart joins Nutcracker
Fairy role in new Disney movie
12/10/2016 … Miranda Hart is to star in the new movie version of The Nutcracker.
© BBC ITV Fresh to pilot new comedy formats
...from black and ethnic minority talent
12/10/2016 … Paul Chowdhry, Guz Khan and Jason Lewis are among the stars of a raft of new comedy pilots commissioned by ITV2.
Tue 11 October 2016
© BBC/Comedy Unit Burnistoun's back
BBC Scotland sketch series filming now
11/10/2016 … Burnistoun is to return to BBC Scotland.
© BBC / Mentorn Dara O Briain to return with more Robot Wars
11/10/2016 … DARA O BRIAIN is to return with a second series of Robot Wars, BBC Two has announced.
Mon 10 October 2016
Make Christmas crackers go with a bang...
Gold launches its annual jokes competition
10/10/2016 … TV channel Gold has launched its annual competition to find the best modern Christmas cracker jokes.
R4 renews The Casebook of Max and Ivan
Second series and Halloween special
10/10/2016 … Radio 4 has picked up The Casebook of Max and Ivan for a second series – plus a Halloween special.
Sun 09 October 2016
Chat's all folks! Carr confirms end of Chatty Man
'I can't compete with Graham Norton'
09/10/2016 … Alan Carr has confirmed Chatty Man has come to an end after eight years and 16 series.
Sat 08 October 2016
Russell Brand to write a book on addiction
08/10/2016 … Russell Brand is to write a book about addiction.
© Andy Hollingworth BBC commissions Bill Bailey sitcom
Pilot for comedy set in wildlife park
08/10/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a pilot of a new Bill Bailey sitcom based in a wildlife park.
Mixed fortunes for Still Game's return
A ratings smash in Scotland - less so elsewhere
08/10/2016 … The return of Still Game has notched up a record audience in Scotland - but performed less well south of the border.
Fri 07 October 2016
BBC One signs Ivan Brackenbury
Full series of Hospital People ordered
07/10/2016 … Inept hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury has been given his own BBC One series, following a successful pilot.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Fleabag returns to the stage
Phoebe Waller-Bridge goes back to Soho
07/10/2016 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge is taking BBC sleeper hit Fleabag back to the stage.
Ade Edmondson becomes a children's author
07/10/2016 … Adrian Edmondson is to become the latest comedian to turn to children’s literature.
Why Black Mirror is like Fawlty Towers...
Charlie Brooker speaks about new series
07/10/2016 … Even the grimmest episode of Black Mirror is based on the same principles as comedy writing, creator Charlie Brooker has said.
'Nobody's penis was that big...'
07/10/2016 … •'Every time I go out to do Just a Minute, I am conscious I might never work again.
Thu 06 October 2016
'A Miranda for the Snapchat generation'
Hart plans new comedy about a clumsy teen
06/10/2016 … Miranda Hart is developing a children's comedy drama about a teenage agony aunt.
BBC picks up Porridge and Motherland
And Tim Renkow's A Brief History Of Tim
06/10/2016 … The BBC is to make full series of the revived Porridge; Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan’s Motherland and Tim Renkow’s A Brief History Of Tim.
© BBC Scotland Comedies vie for Scottish Bafta
06/10/2016 … MRS BROWN'S BOYS, Scot Squad and Two Doors Down have all been nominated for the Scottish Bafta for best comedy.
Victoria Wood biography put on hold
Her brother admits too much emphasis on her weight
06/10/2016 … Victoria Wood’s brother has put his biography of the comedian on hold after criticism he was focussing too much on her ‘fat and unhappy’ teenage…
Jail threat for comic who glassed heckler
Guilty verdict in Hong Kong case
06/10/2016 … An open-mic comedian has been found guilty of glassing a heckler.
Is Victoria Coren Mitchell the new Jeremy Clarkson?
06/10/2016 … It could be the antidote to the laddish feel of Top Gear – but Radio 4 is launching a new comedy talk show called Women Talking About Cars.
Wed 05 October 2016
© ABC Ronny Chieng's sitcom picked up for series
To air in the US and Australia
05/10/2016 … Ronny Chieng’s sitcom has been picked up for a full series in Australia and America, following a successful pilot.
Ricky Gervais announces new David Brent dates
05/10/2016 … Ricky Gervais has announced two more music gigs as David Brent.
E4 buys Black-ish
Hit US series to air this month
05/10/2016 … Channel 4 has acquired the UK rights to American sitcom Black-ish.
Radio 4 drops Don't Make Me Laugh
David Baddiel's show attracted complaints over Queen gag
05/10/2016 … Radio 4 has axed David Baddiel's Don't Make Me Laugh – after it sparked a storm over jokes about the Queen's sex life.
The trailer just dropped for Stephen Merchant's new show
05/10/2016 … The first trailer has been released for Stephen Merchant's new American comedy series.
Tue 04 October 2016
© Ewen Roberts/Creative Commons Jessica Hynes creates female superhero
But no broadcaster is signed up
04/10/2016 … Jessica Hynes has written a TV show about a female superhero.
Matt Richardson gets spooky
Hosting new 'haunted house' show with Christine Lampard
04/10/2016 … Matt Richardson is to present a Halloween TV series in which celebrities check into a supposedly haunted hotel.
Women scoop ALL these comedy writing awards
04/10/2016 … WOMEN have cleaned up in a talent hunt for exciting new comedy writers, scooping all four awards.
Off the hook
No action against comic who called Turkish president a goat-shagger
04/10/2016 … German prosecutors have dropped their case against a comedian accused of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mon 03 October 2016
It's Jocelyn... again
Radio 4 orders second series of sketch show
03/10/2016 … Jocelyn Jee Esien is to make a second series of her Radio 4 sketch show, It's Jocelyn.
© UKTV Gold Taskmaster given two more series
Greg Davies and Alex Horne to return
03/10/2016 … The Dave channel has ordered two more series of Taskmaster.
Emotional night as Bafta hails Terry Jones
03/10/2016 … Terry Jones has made his first public appearance since revealing that he has been diagnosed with a form of dementia.
'Caroline Aherne abused me'
Ex Peter Hook makes claims in new book
03/10/2016 … Caroline Aherne’s ex-husband has claimed she was an abusive partner who caused him physical and emotional pain.
Robin Ince wins science award
Forget the Nobels, this is the big one...
03/10/2016 … Robin Ince has won a prestigious award for science journalism.
© BBC 'I cannot hide the facts'
Victoria Wood's brother defends controversial biography
03/10/2016 … Two rival biographies of Victoria Wood are being planned – threatening to cause a family rift.
American TV brings back the Gong Show
With Will Arnett as executive producer
03/10/2016 … American broadcaster ABC is bringing back The Gong Show.
Sun 02 October 2016
Rob Brydon to tour
02/10/2016 … Rob Brydon is to tour for the first time in eight years.
Sat 01 October 2016
Sinking their teeth into Vampire Academy
01/10/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Holmes under the hammer...
Jon speaks out over Now Show axe
01/10/2016 … Jon Holmes has spoken out about being axed from the Now Show - after the BBC’s move became front-page news.
Fri 30 September 2016
© C4 Talk about a dick pic...
30/09/2016 … • Joel Dommett has painted a still life using his penis, after meeting an Australian (who else?) who's mastered the art.
Tom Price's Magic move
Comedian joins London radio station
30/09/2016 … Comedian Tom Price has signed up to present a weekend show on Magic Radio.
Rentaghost star Ann Emery dies at 86
Tributes to Ethel Meaker actress
30/09/2016 … Ann Emery, who played Ethel Meaker in the children's comedy Rentaghost, has died at the age of 86.
Tim Key does Art
New West End revival of modern classic
30/09/2016 … Tim Key is to appear in the new London production of Art at the Old Vic.
Boy Meets Girl up for major awards
30/09/2016 … BBC comedy Boy Meets Girl landed five prestigious award nominations – less than 24 hours after it was revealed that it has been axed.
Watch Shirley Ghostman invade Derek Acorah's stage
30/09/2016 … Shirley Ghostman creator Marc Wootton has released video of the moment he stormed the stage of a Derek Acorah show.
Thu 29 September 2016
BBC rejects the complaints of a 'toad-faced hypocrite'
MP's battle with Russell Howard's Good News
29/09/2016 … Calling Conservative MP Philip Davies a ‘toad-faced hypocrite’ is perfectly all right, according to the BBC Trust.
© Marc Turner Still Game returns to the stage
New show announced for Glasgow
29/09/2016 … Still Game is to return to the stage for another live show.
John Bishop announces 2017 tour
29/09/2016 … John Bishop has announced an arena tour for autumn 2017.
© Stuart Hogben Josh Widdicombe enters the Crystal Maze
29/09/2016 … JOSH WIDDICOMBE is to be one of the contestants in the revived Crystal Maze when Stephen Merchant hosts the one-off special for Channel 4’s Stand Up For Cancer…
Jim Davidson to make his Comedy Store debut
29/09/2016 … Jim Davidson and Joe Pasquale are making their debuts in the spiritual home of alternative comedy, the Comedy Store.
Wed 28 September 2016
Revealed: Sky's Halloween shorts
With Matthew Holness, Ross Noble and more
28/09/2016 … Garth Merenghi creator Matthew Holness is returning to TV with a new horror-comedy short.
© BBC/Tiger Aspect/Matt Squire BBC axes Boy Meets Girl
Audiences slumped for groundbreaking trans comedy
28/09/2016 … Boy Meets Girl, the first British comedy to feature a transgender star, has been axed.
Jo Brand pens a feature film
28/09/2016 … Jo Brand has written her first film - about a Morrissey-loving schizophrenic.
© Jelly Legs 2008 I'm so glad I didn't know about Caroline Aherne's cancer
Ricky Tomlinson and star's brother pay tribute
28/09/2016 … Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson said he was glad he didn't know about Caroline Aherne's cancer, as it would have been 'too painful' to work with her.
Tribute unveiled to Freddie Frinton
Forgotten at home...but still famous in Europe
28/09/2016 … A tribute has been unveiled in Cleethorpes to a variety hall comedian who remains a star across much of Europe nearly 50 years after his death.
Victoria Wood statue hits £20k target
28/09/2016 … THE campaign to erect a statue of Victoria Wood in her home town of Bury has reached its £20,000 target – but the comedian's brother Chris Foote Wood is now…
Tue 27 September 2016
Now Show axes Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn
27/09/2016 … Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn have been axed from Radio 4’s Now Show – in the name of diversity.
Cops pull over zombies
...but the undead were just sitcom extras
27/09/2016 … Police responding to reports of a woman being assaulted in her car on the M62 were surprised at what they found when they pulled over the vehicle – zombies.
Katherine Ryan asks: How Did You Get So Rich?
27/09/2016 … Katherine Ryan is to host a new Channel 4 series about the super-wealthy.
Seinfeld becomes a slot machine
Because they haven't made enough money...
27/09/2016 … Seinfeld is to become a slot machine.
Out now: Daniel Kitson's 2013 show
27/09/2016 … DANIEL KITSON has just released his 2013 show After The Beginning, Before The End as a digital download.
Modern Family casts transgender child actor
Jackson Millarker, 8, makes a TV first
27/09/2016 … Modern Family has cast a transgender child actor.
Amazon gives superhero show a big Tick
Serafinowicz to don the blue outfit again
27/09/2016 … Peter Serafinowicz's superhero comedy The Tick has been commissioned for a full series.
John Bishop is UK's highest earning comic
Making £5.4million a year, says Forbes
27/09/2016 … John Bishop is the highest-earning British comedian this year, according to wealth magazine Forbes.
© Creative Commons: Alex Folkes/Fishnik Photography Nick Clegg to host HIGNFY
First appearance for former Deputy PM
27/09/2016 … Nick Clegg is to guest host Have I Got News for You.
Mon 26 September 2016
Mrs Brown's Boys announces new arena tour
26/09/2016 … Mrs Brown’s Boys is going back on tour.
Harry Hill's trans jokes are ruled offensive
...seven years after watchdogs cleared them
26/09/2016 … Broadcast watchdogs have branded a Harry Hill routine about a transgender man offensive – seven years after clearing the same jokes.
Gangsta Granny to raid the West End
London transfer for David Walliams show
26/09/2016 … David Walliams’s children’s book, Gangsta Granny, is heading to he West End.
Jim Davidson draws salary from veterans' charity
'It's a full-time job,' says comic
26/09/2016 … Jim Davidson is paid £43,000 a year from a veterans’ charity he set up, it has been revealed.
James Corden to play Peter Rabbit
26/09/2016 … JAMES CORDEN is to voice Peter Rabbit in a new big screen version of Beatrix Potter’s children’s classic to celebrate the author's 150th birthday.
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Great British Fake Off
MailOnline mistakes a mimic for the real Mel & Sue
26/09/2016 … The Daily Mail has been fooled by impressionist Morgana Robinson.
Sun 25 September 2016
Andrew Lawrence: the documentary
Sky to air film about The Outcast Comic
25/09/2016 … Andrew Lawrence’s fall from grace is to be told in a new Sky documentary, Chortle can reveal.
'The cruellest thing that could befall someone'
Michael Palin's touching tribute to Terry Jones
25/09/2016 … Michael Palin has paid a touching tribute to his Monty Python colleague Terry Jones following his diagnosis with a severe type of dementia.
Sat 24 September 2016
Death becomes them
A 'bad gig' podcast, and more comedy on demand
24/09/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Sam Kinison's last show released
24/09/2016 … The last stand-up set Sam Kinison ever recorded has been released.
Fri 23 September 2016
Miranda Hart to play the London Palladium
Talking about her book, Peggy & Me
23/09/2016 … Miranda Hart is to appear at the London Palladium.
Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia
Illness means Monty Python star has trouble communicating
23/09/2016 … Terry Jones has been diagnosed with a severe type of dementia.
C4 buys This Is Us
New comedy-drama stormed US ratings
23/09/2016 … Channel 4 has acquired the UK rights to new American comedy This Is Us.
Stewart Lee calls out German 'plagiarist'
23/09/2016 … • I've always thought of myself of a cross between Gordon Brown and Pippa Middleton’ Miles Jupp• Stewart Lee has called out a German comedian for stealing…
Sofie Hagen aims for 'reduced-anxiety' gigs
And gender-neutral toilets in every venue
23/09/2016 … Sofie Hagen is going to extra lengths to make her forthcoming tour welcoming for fans with anxiety issues and who don’t identify as male or female.
Thu 22 September 2016
BBC plans Mrs Brown spin-off
Entertainment show for Brendan O’Carroll's creation
22/09/2016 … Brendan O’Carroll’s alter-ego Mrs Brown is poised to front a new BBC One entertainment show.
I'm a Chris Ramsey... Get Me Out Of Here!
22/09/2016 … Chris Ramsey is to host ITV2’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here spin-off show.
Harry Enfield makes his theatrical debut
22/09/2016 … Harry Enfield is to make his theatrical stage debut in a satirical play set in the early days of Hollywood ‘talkies’.
Frankie Boyle does Room 101
22/09/2016 … THE first batch of guests have been unveiled for the next series of Room 101.
Rhys Darby joins Jumanji
22/09/2016 … Rhys Darby has joined the cast of the rebooted version of Jumanji.
Wed 21 September 2016
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.
Comic accused of glassing heckler
But he says victim 'ran into' glass
21/09/2016 … A Hong Kong comedian has appeared in court after being accused of glassing a heckler in the face.
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.
© HBO Double Emmy for John Oliver
19/09/2016 … John Oliver came away with two Emmy awards last night.
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.
'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.
© 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.
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.
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.
Sun 18 September 2016
Get a feeling for Ealing
18/09/2016 … The comedy week ahead…Sunday September 18TV: Richard E Grant celebrates Ealing comedies in a new series for Gold with the likes of Carrie Fisher, Sanjeev Bhaskar,…
Sat 17 September 2016
Is this the best US sitcom you've never heard of?
17/09/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Netflix to make its first Indian stand-up special
17/09/2016 … Vir Das is to record the first Netflix stand-up special to be shot in India.
Fri 16 September 2016
Jon Richardson faces his fears
In new C4 show with wife Lucy Beaumont
16/09/2016 … Jon Richardson is to front a one-off Channel 4 documentary with his wife and fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont.
Rhod Gilbert to host The Apprentice: You're Fired
And Romesh Ranganathan stands down
16/09/2016 … Rhod Gilbert is to host The Apprentice spin-off show You're Fired.
What's a girl got to do to get noticed?
16/09/2016 … • 'Thank Fuck It's Friday could be a Stones song.
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ Isy Suttie cancels tour
Remaining dates pulled because of illness
16/09/2016 … Isy Suttie has cancelled all the remaining dates of her UK tour due to illness.
© BBC Filming starts on Citizen Khan
16/09/2016 … Filming has started on series five of Citizen Khan in Birmingham.
BBC announces when Still Game will return
16/09/2016 … THE BBC has set an air date for the return of Still Game.
Thu 15 September 2016
Tape Face's America's Got Talent run is over
No top five placing... but a US career is assured
15/09/2016 … Tape Face's adventure on America's Got Talent has ended with him missing out on a top five placing.
Christmas specials for The Windsors
Channel 4 orders two extra episodes
15/09/2016 … Spoof Royal soap opera The Windsors is to return for two Christmas specials.
Protests block planned comedy festival
15/09/2016 … London won’t be getting a new outdoor comedy festival after locals complained it would blight their lives.
Mike Birbiglia announces UK date
As his film plays London Film Festival
15/09/2016 … American comedian Mike Birbiglia has announced a London date.
Outnumbered Christmas special confirmed
New one-off after three years away
15/09/2016 … Outnumbered is to return to BBC One for a Christmas one-off, co-creator Andy Hamilton has confirmed.
Wed 14 September 2016
Morgana's Agency: Who's in and who's out
Mimic tells all about her new BBC Two series
14/09/2016 … Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington and Nancy dell'Olio have all narrowly avoided being mocked in Morgana Robinson's new impressions show.
© Rose d'Or Brits take home a bunch of Roses
14/09/2016 … British comedies have scooped the board at this year's Rose d'Or Award international TV event.
Tape Face's toilet humour on AGT final
14/09/2016 … Tape Face put judge Mel B's head through a toilet set in the final of America'sGot Talent last night.
Details of new Black Mirrors revealed
Six episodes to drop on Netflix next month
14/09/2016 … Further details have emerged about the next season of Black Mirror.
Owen Smith pulls out of new satire show
Alan Johnson goes on Matt Forde's Unspun instead
14/09/2016 … Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has pulled out of Matt Forde’s new political comedy show at the last minute.
Arm Wrestling with Chas And Dave becomes a reality
14/09/2016 … The BBC has made Alan Partridge’s idea of Arm Wrestling with Chas And Dave a reality – almost.
Tim Talks
14/09/2016 … TIM MINCHIN is to be the guest at an 'in conversation with.
Tue 13 September 2016
© Manuel Harlan Groundhog Day heads to New York
Broadway transfer for Tim Minchin musical
13/09/2016 … Tim Minchin’s Groundhog Day musical is heading to New York.
From Downton Abbey to Buckingham Palace
Cast announced for new royal sitcom
13/09/2016 … Downton Abbey actor Charles Edwards is to star in a new comedy about a fictional king of the UK – with Sally Phillips as his queen.
Russell Howard curates a festival
In aid of breast cancer charity
13/09/2016 … Russell Howard is curating a comedy festival line-up in aid of a breast cancer charity.
Mel and Sue quit Bake Off
Row over show's move to Channel 4
13/09/2016 … Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are quitting as hosts of The Great British Bake Off.
Mon 12 September 2016
Judi Dench boosts Victoria Wood statue appeal
12/09/2016 … Dame Judi Dench has donated £1,000 towards the campaign to erect a statue of Victoria Wood in Bury.
Still Open All Hours gets a third series
But without Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
12/09/2016 … BBC One has commissioned a third series of Still Open All Hours – but without Lynda Baron as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
Trigger Happy returns as online shorts
12/09/2016 … TRIGGER HAPPY will return as a series of eight five- and six- minute shorts, which will be available online via All4 from September 26, the broadcaster has announced.
Kunt kwits
'Puerile' musical comic calls it a day
12/09/2016 … Kunt And The Gang, the cult musical comedian known for his crude songs, is to call it a day.
Sun 11 September 2016
© Comedy Central Jimmy Carr jokes about Sept 11 victim
Brutal 'roast' gag airs on anniversary of tragedy
11/09/2016 … Comedy Central has aired a brutal Jimmy Carr joke about one of the victims of 9/11 on the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.
Unseen Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse scripts saved
Including the sitcom Bollock Street
11/09/2016 … Charlie Higson’s archive of comedy writing is to be preserved, including scripts that never saw the light of day.
Sat 10 September 2016
'I can't book you because you're a woman'
What one female promoter told Bethany Black
10/09/2016 … Stand-up Bethany Black has revealed how she was turned down for a comedy gig because they had 'too many women' on the bill.
Les Dawson's last interview
10/09/2016 … This week’s best comedy on demand.
Fri 09 September 2016
Nish Kumar and Joel Dommett in BBC travel show
Meeting the fittest people on Earth
09/09/2016 … Joel Dommett and Nish Kumar are shooting a BBC travelogue.
No Such Thing As The News gets a second series
09/09/2016 … The BBC has ordered a second series of No Such Thing As The News, the spin-off from the hit podcast from the QI researchers.
Cosby had no right to ban anyone from his show
09/09/2016 … It is far from the biggest legal battle he is facing.
© Phil Chambers/Creative Commons David Suchet joins Peter Pan Goes Wrong
09/09/2016 … David Suchet is to narrate the BBC Christmas comedy Peter Pan Goes Wrong, it has been announced.
Parkinson and Pemberton revive Dead Funny
West End comedy hit back after 22 years
09/09/2016 … Katherine Parkinson and Steve Pemberton are to star in a West End revival of Terry Johnson’s comedy Dead Funny.
Jason Manford pulls gig with 2hrs notice
As he rushes his daughter to A&E
09/09/2016 … Jason Manford cancelled a sold-out gig in Manchester with just two hours’ notice last night, as he had to rush his daughter to hospital.
'The bastard looks nothing like me...'
09/09/2016 … • ‘I’m not even the funniest in our house.
Thu 08 September 2016
Ben Elton starts shooting his new movie
Three Summers is his first directing job in 15 years
08/09/2016 … Ben Elton is directing his first film in more than 15 years.
Matt Forde's Unspun guests named
08/09/2016 … GUESTS have been announced for Unspun with Matt Forde, the new political comedy show for Dave, In episode one, the comic will be joined by Labour leadership challenger…
© ITV Joanna Lumley joins new rom-com
Finding Your Feet is set around dance classes
08/09/2016 … Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley and Imelda Staunton are to star in a new British rom-com aimed at older audiences.
Wed 07 September 2016
© BBC/King Bert Revealed: Walliams & Friend co-stars
Sketch show returns with Harry Enfield and more...
07/09/2016 … David Walliams’s celebrity co-stars have been revealed for his new BBC One sketch series Walliams & Friend.
Lee Nelson comic pranks Sir Philip Green
Simon Brodkin targets his £100m superyacht
07/09/2016 … Lee Nelson creator Simon Brodkin has targeted retail boss Sir Philip Green in his latest stunt.
Bill Cosby plays the race card
As a date is set for his criminal trial
07/09/2016 … A court date has been set for Bill Cosby’s trail for the alleged sexual assault The comedian will defend himself against charges that he attacked…
Amber Heard drops Doug Stanhope lawsuit
Johnny Depp's ex no longer suing comic
07/09/2016 … Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard has dropped her defamation lawsuit Doug Stanhope.
Timing is everything...
Finally released, the show George Carlin recorded on the eve of 9/11
07/09/2016 … A previously unheard stand-up special George Carlin recorded the day before the 9/11 terrorist attacks is to be released for the first time next week.
Tue 06 September 2016
Lets call it Gigglebox...
Gold launches celeb Gogglebox-style show for comedy
06/09/2016 … The Gold channel has announced a new clips programmes in which comedy stars watch extracts from their favourite shows Gogglebox-style.
Mark Thomas is the critics' pick
Comic tops new analysis of Fringe reviews
06/09/2016 … Mark Thomas has topped a new list of the best-reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Baddiel pens kids' story for Virgin Trains
Tale available onboard tomorrow
06/09/2016 … David Baddiel has been commissioned to write a children's story for Virgin Trains.
© UKTV Red Dwarf cast: We can keep making more...
'As long as some people like it, we’ll probably be all right.’
06/09/2016 … The cast and writer of Red Dwarf say they’ll keep making the show as long as there’s a demand for it.
'It might take more than one episode for people to get this...'
06/09/2016 … James Buckley has been speaking about his new fantasy comedy series Zapped for the first time – saying it’s nothing like The Inbetweeners.
Mon 05 September 2016
Marcus Brigstocke takes on the gadgets
New show for Dave with Alexis Conran
05/09/2016 … Committed Luddite Marcus Brigstocke is setting out to prove that old-fashioned know-how can beat the latest gadgets in a new entertainment show for the Dave TV channel.
Isy Suttie joins Sue Townsend tribute
05/09/2016 … ISY SUTTIE, Stephen Mangan, Julie Walters and Ian Hislop are to pay tribute to the creator of Adrian Mole in The Secret Life Of Sue Townsend, Age 68 ¾, one of…
Karl Spain joins celebrity diet show
05/09/2016 … COMEDIAN Karl Spain is to try to shed the pounds on Irish reality TV show Celebrity Operation Transformation.
© Kate Blackwood / Creative Commons (image cropped& extended) Sadiq Khan: 'I used to do stand-up'
Politician gave up comedy to be London mayor
05/09/2016 … London mayor Sadiq Khan has told of how he gave up stand-up comedy to run for the capital's top office.
Sun 04 September 2016
Jason Manford gets spooky for Sky 1
Comedy-horror short for Halloween
04/09/2016 … Jason Manford has written short comedy-horror film to air on Sky1 this Halloween.
Eddie Izzard vs the beret bandit
04/09/2016 … • Kevin Hart does 1,000 sit-ups a day.
New series of The Pin drops on Radio 4
04/09/2016 … Monday September 5TV: The Horrible Histories team are back for a one-off special marking the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.
Fri 02 September 2016
Alan Carr 'planning new C4 show'
Happy Hour to air pre-watershed
02/09/2016 … Alan Carr is working on a new show for Channel 4.
Thu 01 September 2016
Bridget Christie is the critics' favourite
Revealed: best-reviewed comedy shows on the Fringe
01/09/2016 … Bridget Christie has been named the best reviewed comedy show of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Tape Face makes AGT final
Narrow viewers' vote saves mime act
01/09/2016 … Tape Face has made the final of America's Got Talent after being saved by a close-fought viewers’ vote.
Stephen Merchant to host The Crystal Maze
C4 to air one-off celeb special
01/09/2016 … Stephen Merchant is to host a one-off celebrity revival of The Crystal Maze.
Wed 31 August 2016
America has another stab at Friday Night Dinner
31/08/2016 … America is having a third stab at remaking Friday Night Dinner.
Tape Face appears in America's Got Talent semi
31/08/2016 … Tape Face appeared in the semi-final of America's Got Talent last night, sparking a row between the judges.
Comedy Central series for Chris Ramsey
Entertainment show harnesses social media
31/08/2016 … Chris Ramsey is to host a ‘unique and high energy comedy entertainment series’ for Comedy Central.
Tue 30 August 2016
Dave Chappelle announces London gigs
30/08/2016 … Dave Chappelle, has announced a surprise run of eight intimate London shows – in just a week’s timeHe will be performing two shows a night from next Tuesday…
Sky orders another series of Trollied
30/08/2016 … Sky 1 has commissioned a sixth series of Trollied – with Rufus Hound joining the cast.
Mon 29 August 2016
Gene Wilder dies at 83
Comic star had Alzheimer's disease
29/08/2016 … Tributes have been pouring in for comic actor Gene Wilder, who has died at the age of 83.
Sun 28 August 2016
© BBC/Scott Kershaw
Delta Airlnes censors Chris Rock
28/08/2016 … Delta Airlines is editing a Chris Rock comedy special on its in-flight entertainment systems after a passenger complained about the comedian’s use of the word…
© BBC Hamish and Dougal become stage stars
New theatre show based on Radio 4 characters
28/08/2016 … A new stage play has been created based around Radio 4 comedy characters Hamish and Dougal.
Comedians' Choice winners revealed
Celebrating the best of the Fringe
28/08/2016 … Mat Ewins, Lolly Adefope and Bob Slayer have won the Comedians’ Choice awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sat 27 August 2016
Richard Gadd scoops Edinburgh Comedy Award
A double for Scotland as Scott Gibson takes newcomer
27/08/2016 … Richard Gadd has won this year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for a show about being the victim of sexual assault.
BBC's new satirical comedy - but with no comedians
A Gogglebox take on topical humour
27/08/2016 … BBC Two is to launch a new topical satire show – but created by ‘real people’, not comedians.
Live At The Apollo gets a 12th series
27/08/2016 … LIVE At The Apollo is to return for six more episodes and a Christmas special, to be recorded at the London venue in October, Names of the stand-ups taking part…
John Cleese is offered a BBC sitcom
Comedy legend 'in talks' over new role
27/08/2016 … John Cleese has been offered the starring role in a new BBC sitcom.
Fri 26 August 2016
Bill Bailey pens bird book
26/08/2016 … Bill Bailey has written a 'humorous and personal' guide to British birds.
Radio 4 unveils raft of new comedies
With Herring, Pascoe, Berry & more...
26/08/2016 … Radio 4 has announces a raft of new comedy shows featuring names such as Matt Berry, Meera Syal, Richard Herring, Sara Pascoe and Rhys James.
V&A acquires Tommy Cooper archive
26/08/2016 … The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a vast archive of Tommy Cooper memorabilia – but not a single fez.
Inbetweeners team reunite
For BBC comedy about 1980s double-glazing salesmen
26/08/2016 … Inbetweeners stars Joe Thomas and James Buckley are to reunite with the co-creator of the youth TV hit for a new BBC Two comedy.
'Reality TV is a Geordie f***ing an octopus'
Frankie Boyle at the Edinburgh TV Festival
26/08/2016 … TV comedy is too bland – and needs quotas to ensure more diversity, Frankie Boyle has said.
Will Franken loses it with a heckler
26/08/2016 … • Comedian Will Mars wasn’t happy with his two-star Chortle review this Fringe, he decided he’d just award himself five stars, attribute them to made-up website…
Thu 25 August 2016
ITV orders Harry Hill panel show
Alien Fun Capsule to air next year
25/08/2016 … ITV has commissioned a new panel show from Harry Hill, to air in 2017.
© BBC/Scott Kershaw BBC to make Nigel Farage comedy
Starring Porridge's Kevin Bishop
25/08/2016 … The BBC is to make a spoof about Nigel Farage’s life after quitting politics.
Old sitcom reboots 'could lead to full series'
25/08/2016 … One or more of the sitcoms being rebooted by the BBC could return for a full series, the corporation’s comedy chief Shane Allen says.
A League Of Their Own returns to the States
And three more studio series ordered
25/08/2016 … The League Of Their Own team are to go on a second American road trip.
Channel 5 goes back to the Borderline
25/08/2016 … Channel 5’s comedy Borderline is to return for a second series.
Comic guilty of being drunk and disorderly
Monty Burns swore at cop who caught him peeing
25/08/2016 … Stand-up comic Gregor Burns – who uses the stage name Monty Burns – has admitted charges of being drunk and disorderly after he swore at a police…
Dawn French to host kids' talent show
US format Little Big Shots comes to ITV
25/08/2016 … Dawn French is to host an ITV show highlighting talented children.
Heidi Regan wins So You Think You're Funny?
25/08/2016 … DEADPAN Australian comedian Heidi Regan has won this year's £2,500 So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, staged by the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh…
Wed 24 August 2016
The 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees are...
24/08/2016 … The nominees for this year’s lastminute.
Confirmed: Not Going Out to return
24/08/2016 … Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out is to return for an eighth series, the BBC has confirmed today.
© ITV/Big Talk 'Black to the future'
ITV2 orders time-travelling sitcom
24/08/2016 … ITV2 has commissioned a new sitcom about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920s.
David Brent movie takes £1.5million
24/08/2016 … THE David Brent movie Life On The Road took £1.
Channel 4 orders bisexual comedy
24/08/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new sitcom based around bisexual dating.
C4 orders a comedy set amid The Troubles
Derry Girls penned by London Irish's Lisa McGee
24/08/2016 … The Northern Irish Troubles are to form the backdrop of a new Channel 4 comedy.
© UKTV Taskmaster gets a Belgian remake
24/08/2016 … Taskmaster is to be remade in Belgium and Sweden.
Tue 23 August 2016
Yes Minister creator dies at 86
Sir Antony Jay had a 'long illness'
23/08/2016 … Yes Minister co-creator Sir Antony Jay has died at the age of 86.
And the joke of the 2016 Fringe is...
23/08/2016 … Comedian Masai Graham has won this year’s Joke of the Fringe award with: ‘My dad has suggested that I register for a donor card.
© ITV David Walliams revives Blankety Blank
23/08/2016 … David Walliams is to host a revival of Blankety Blank.
© Twitter/Eric Idle Eric Idle and Brian Cox to explain the universe
With Noel Fielding and Robin Ince
23/08/2016 … Eric Idle is bringing back Rutland Weekend Television for a Christmas one-off covering the entire history of the universe in an hour, with the help of Professor…
Vic Reeves goes gaga for Dada
Comic makes art documentary for BBC Four
23/08/2016 … Vic Reeves is to explore the absurd world of Dada art in a new BBC Four documentary.
Up Pompeii remake is buried
...as BBC couldn't get Miranda to take Frankie Howerd role
23/08/2016 … The BBC has dropped a planned remake of Up Pompeii after failing to secure Miranda Hart to take the lead role, it has been reported.
Mon 22 August 2016
© BBC Mrs Brown's Boys voted sitcom of the century
22/08/2016 … Mrs Brown’s Boys is the greatest British sitcom of the 21st Century, according to viewers.
Fawlty Towers Live deemed a hit
Critics warm to John Cleese's production
22/08/2016 … John Cleese’s revival of Fawlty Towers for the stage has largely been deemed a hit by critics.
Gold buys Irish sitcom hit Bridget & Eamon
First RTE comedy to air in the UK
22/08/2016 … Irish comedy series Bridget & Eamon is to air in Britain after being sold to UKTV’s Gold channel.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Fleabag creator signs with Hollywood agent
22/08/2016 … FLEABAG star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been snapped up by major US agent UTA after what trade website Deadline called a 'very competitive pursuit'.
Arthur Smith's socks are up for an award
22/08/2016 … An exhibition of Arthur Smith’s socks has been nominated for all three categories in the Malcolm Hardee awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sun 21 August 2016
Larry Dean takes Amused Moose crown
Comic deemed 'on the cusp of stardom'
21/08/2016 … Glaswegian comic Larry Dean has won this year's Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Fri 19 August 2016
Comedy Bang! Bang! comes to the UK
But it's cancelled on American TV
19/08/2016 … Cult comedy podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! has announced its first UK tour – just as the TV version has been cancelled.
Radio 4 show for Jake Yapp
19/08/2016 … Jake Yapp is to record a Radio 4 show.
Mark Thomas wins his third Fringe First
Edinburgh accolade for his theatre show
19/08/2016 … Mark Thomas has won a coveted Fringe First award for his Edinburgh show about his early stand-up career and political awakening.
The best ten shows of the Edinburgh Fringe?
19/08/2016 … The finalists for the Amused Moose Comedy Award for Edinburgh Fringe acts 'on he cusp of fame' have been named.
Jeremy Corbyn interruped my gig...
19/08/2016 … • Seeking a comment on the effect of the EU referendum result on the Fringe, the Glasgow Herald sought the opinion of a French comedian on the festival.
Milton Jones to star in new sitcom
19/08/2016 … Milton Jones and Elis James are to star in a new sitcom written by Bluestone 42 co-creator James Cary.
Thu 18 August 2016
Miranda Hart won't be returning to Call The Midwife
News of Chummy comeback was premature
18/08/2016 … Miranda Hart says she won't be returning to Call The Midwife.
© BBC America Dirk Gently's coming to the UK
18/08/2016 … British viewers will get to watch the new series of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency – thanks to Netflix.
So You Think You're Funny? 2016 finalists announced
18/08/2016 … FINALISTS have been announced in this year's So You Think You're Funny new act competition, held at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Wed 17 August 2016
Tom makes a great impression
Mimic crowned Chortle Student Comedy king
17/08/2016 … Tom Gidman last night became the first character comedian to win the Chortle Student Comedy Award.
Tue 16 August 2016
Susan Calman to host kids' quiz
16/08/2016 … Susan Calman is to host a televised hunt for Britain’s smartest school.
John Cleese honoured by Rose d'Or
Fawlty star gets lifetime achievement award
16/08/2016 … John Cleese is to receive the Rose d’Or Award for lifetime achievement at the annual international TV awards.
PBH to stand down from Free Fringe
16/08/2016 … Free Fringe founder Peter Buckley-Hill has confirmed that he is to step down from the organisation he set up.
© Jake Williams / Creative Commons Edinburgh train strike called off
16/08/2016 … THE RMT rail union has suspended its walk-outs that could have affected travel to and from Edinburgh on the last weekend of the Fringe.
Mon 15 August 2016
Comedy prize is won by a bunch of dicks
Montage scoops Edinburgh poster award
15/08/2016 … A montage of penis photographs has won a £1,500 prize at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong on BBC One
15/08/2016 … West End hit comedy Peter Pan Goes Wrong is to be adapted for BBC One.
© BBC David Brent is Finnish-ed
Ricky Gervais comedy gets a Nordic remake
15/08/2016 … Finland is making its own version of The Office.
Welcome to the Weddingburgh Fringe!
15/08/2016 … Comedian Bec Hill got married at the Edinburgh Fringe today – and recruited plenty of comedy folk to help her.
DAAS have the spirit of the Fringe
15/08/2016 … AUSTRALIAN comedy trio the Doug Anthony All Stars were awarded a Spirit Of The Fringe award in Edinburgh last night by festival stalwart Melvyn Stutter.
Sun 14 August 2016
Jethro Bradley scoops BBC crown
New comedy final held in Edinburgh
14/08/2016 … Cardiff-based Jethro Bradley has won this year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award.
Fri 12 August 2016
Revealed: New batch of BBC Comedy Feeds
With Iain Stirling, Guz Khan, Tim Renkow and more
12/08/2016 … The BBC is to announce a new batch of Comedy Feeds, featuring the likes of Ian Stirling, Tim Renkow and Guz Khan.
Revealed: The next batch of BBC Comedy Feeds
With Iain Stirling, Guz Khan, Tim Renkow and more
12/08/2016 … The BBC has announced a new batch of Comedy Feeds, featuring the likes of Ian Stirling, Tim Renkow and Guz Khan.
Richard Wilson suffers heart attack
One Foot In The Grave actor 'stable' in hospital
12/08/2016 … One Foot in the Grave star Richard Wilson has suffered a heart attack.
Jamali Maddix befriends the extremists
12/08/2016 … Stand-up Jamali Maddix is to befriend extremists and racists for a new TV show.
Air date revealed for new Red Dwarf
12/08/2016 … THE new series of Red Dwarf, the 11th, will start at 9pm on September 22, the Dave channel has announced.
David Baddiel to write three more kids' books
12/08/2016 … David Baddiel is to write three more children’s books, after signing a new deal with HarperCollins.
Nudity, a love child and a fractured arm...
12/08/2016 … • ‘I spend my time wishing people dead.
© Jake Williams / Creative Commons Train staff to strike on the last day of the Fringe
Virgin East Coast seeks to reassure travellers
12/08/2016 … Thousands of Edinburgh Fringe-goers could have their journey to and from the festival disrupted after the RMT announced a series of strikes on Virgin East Coast…
Thu 11 August 2016
Victoria Wood to be immortalised as a statue
11/08/2016 … A statue to Victoria Wood is to be built in her home town of Bury.
Like Spotify for comedy
New app launches... and Louis CK reigns
11/08/2016 … Louis CK is the most popular comedian for on-demand listening, according to research for a new app offering stand-up specials.
Comedians' shows pulled over unpaid bills
11/08/2016 … Several comics have pulled their shows from a London theatre in an extraordinary row over unpaid bills.
Wed 10 August 2016
BBC pilots James Acaster comedy
10/08/2016 … The BBC has announced three new sitcom pilots – including one starring Robert Webb and another written by James Acaster.
Tue 09 August 2016
Channel 4 axes Raised By Wolves
But Caitlin Moran has a plan to bring it back...
09/08/2016 … Channel 4 has dropped Raised by Wolves after two series.
© Steve Ullathorne Steve Punt joins Rocky Horror Show
09/08/2016 … Steve Punt is to join the cast of The Rocky Horror Show.
Josh Widdicombe throws in the towel on Fighting Talk
As does co-presenter Georgie Ainslie
09/08/2016 … Josh Widdicombe is to leave Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk.
Mon 08 August 2016
© John Fleming Fire rips through the old Tunnel Club
Can any part of the legendary venue survive?
08/08/2016 … A blaze has ripped through the venue that was once Malcolm Hardee's legendary Tunnel Club.
Woman arrested after heckling – at a freedom of speech gig
08/08/2016 … A woman has been arrested after heckling an Edinburgh Fringe show – about freedom of speech.
© BBC/Keiron McCarron Meet the new Are You Being Served? cast
08/08/2016 … Here's the first picture of the new cast of Are You Being Served? The sitcom is being brought back for a one-off special next month as part of the BBC's Landmark…
Stewart Lee releases a show on 10in green vinyl
08/08/2016 … Stewart Lee’s 2002 show Pea Green Boat has been re-released – on a 10-inch pea-green vinyl.
Sofie Hagen joins the great Danes
Comic up for a major award in her homeland
08/08/2016 … Sofie Hagen has been nominated for Comedian of the Year in her native Denmark, for her debut stand-up show Bubblewrap.
The Simpsons gets an hour-long episode
And Amy Schumer guests in another
08/08/2016 … The Simpsons is to make its first hour-long episode.
Sun 07 August 2016
'Culture sells newspapers'
Comedy awards boss calls for more Fringe coverage
07/08/2016 … Edinburgh Comedy Awards producer Nica Burns has called on newspaper editors to support the arts, as in-depth coverage of the Fringe shrinks.
Fri 05 August 2016
Eddie Izzard to play a young Edward VII
Opposite Judi Dench as Victoria
05/08/2016 … Eddie Izzard is to play a young Edward VII in a film starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria.
Comics revealed for Celebrity Storage Hunters
05/08/2016 … Vic Reeves, Tim Vine, Johnny Vegas and Katherine Ryan are among the comedians taking part in a new series of Celebrity Storage Hunters.
The real Big Lebowski dies
05/08/2016 … David Huddleston, who played the title role in The Big Lebowski, has died at the age of 85.
Fringe show's H2Woe
05/08/2016 … • 'Soldiers and comedians both know that a minute's silence means something went wrong.
Book deal for Andrew O'Neill
Comedian to write his history of heavy metal
05/08/2016 … Andrew O’Neill has signed a book deal to write about his passion for heavy metal music.
© Eva Rinaldi / Creative Commons Now Dirty Rotten Scoundrels gets a female reboot
05/08/2016 … First there was Ghostbusters, now Hollywood is to remake Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with female leads.
Thu 04 August 2016
© BBC/Alan Peebles First look at BBC's revived sitcoms
There's a new Alf Ganett, Harold Steptoe and Tony Hancock
04/08/2016 … Here are the first pictures from the BBC's remakes of classic sitcoms.
'I had a decade of memories in that van'
Marcus Brigstocke's appeal after Superbrig stolen
04/08/2016 … Marcus Brigstocke has put out an appeal following the theft of his beloved motor home – the second time a vehicle was stolen from his home in a month.
Googlebox tribute to Caroline Aherne
04/08/2016 … CHANNEL 4's Gogglebox has paid tribute to Caroline Aherne, dedicating Wednesday night's show to the comedian who died last month aged 52.
'Through her characters, her creative genius fully shines'
Major acting honour for Lily Tomlin
04/08/2016 … Lily Tomlin is to receive the highest tribute of the Screen Actor's Guild in America, the Life Achievement Award.
Wed 03 August 2016
Heckle leads to gunfire
Violence flares at US comedy club
03/08/2016 … A heckler was shot at after a night at a comedy club ended in gunfire.
© UKTV Ross Noble pilots motorbike travelogue
The new show after Freewheeling...
03/08/2016 … Ross Noble has piloted a new travelogue series charting adventures on his motorbike – after confirming that his Dave show Freewheeling wouldn't be coming back.
Tue 02 August 2016
© BBC Sitcom kings pen Hatton Garden heist film
New movie from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
02/08/2016 … Sitcom legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are writing a film about the Hatton Garden robbery.
'Spookiest episode ever'
Plot of new Jonathan Creek special revealed
02/08/2016 … The BBC has released details of the new Jonathan Creek special as filming gets under way.
All aboard the comedy train...
02/08/2016 … COMEDIANS including Jo Caulfield, Katie Mulgrew and Ray Bradshaw will be performing to passengers on a special ‘comedy coach’ on the 9.
Mon 01 August 2016
Brexit scuppers Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie 2
Film sequel on hold after EU vote
01/08/2016 … Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has put plans for a second Mrs Brown’s Boys movie on ice.
Exposed: The firm that ripped off Mitch Hedberg
Joke stolen for rice pudding packets
01/08/2016 … A food company has been forced to issue a public apology after stealing a joke from Mitch Hedberg for their packaging.
Who's on Would I Lie To You?
01/08/2016 … Guests have been announced for the tenth series of Would I Lie To You? The panel show is expected to return to BBC One in late August or early September.
Sun 31 July 2016
Happy Burr-day
The best of the comedy week ahead
31/07/2016 … Sunday July 31LIVE IN BRISTOL: It's a gig in a zoo.
What Jon Stewart's doing next
An 'Onion-like portal' for satire
31/07/2016 … Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart is to create an online parody of cable news networks.
'Strip Free Fringe founder of his comedy award'
Online petition launched against PBH
31/07/2016 … An anonymous petition has been set up to strip Free Fringe founder Peter Buckley Hill of his Edinburgh Comedy Award following his diktat banning performers from…
Jarleth Regan 'in talks' for chat show
...and James Corden may go primetime in the US
31/07/2016 … Irish comic Jarleth Regan is in talks to host his own interview show.
Sat 30 July 2016
Do the right thing and download this...
30/07/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demand.
Fri 29 July 2016
Radio Active to return to R4
One-off to be taped at Edinburgh Fringe
29/07/2016 … Sketch show Radio Active is to return to Radio 4 after an almost 30-year absence.
Blasphemy!
Monty Don blasts The Good Life
29/07/2016 … It is usually considered one of the jewels in the crown of British sitcom.
© Slapstick/Adam Johnson Was Dara O Briain a saint in a previous life?
29/07/2016 … • 'When I was doing Spitting Image, Kate Robbins threw a party and Des O'Connor was in the corner playing a white grand piano, wearing a white suit and I thought,…
'Landmark' book deal for Robert Webb
29/07/2016 … Robert Webb is to write his memoirs AND his first novel, following a 'landmark' book deal.
When Shortlist tried to censor Stewart Lee
Magazine didn't want to upset advertisers... or Jack Whitehall
29/07/2016 … Lifestyle magazine Shortlist attempted to censor Stewart Lee for fear he might upset advertisers – or Jack Whitehall.
Thu 28 July 2016
© C4 Scrotal Recall is no more...
As Netflix renames it Lovesick
28/07/2016 … Comedy series Scrotal Recall is to get a new name.
Guests announced for Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
28/07/2016 … The guests have been named for Dara O Briain’s new videogame show, Go 8 Bit.
John Cleese to the rescue!
Comic icon to perform at festival fundraiser
28/07/2016 … John Cleese is to give his only British stage performance of the year year to help Bristol’s Slapstick Festival of vintage comedy.
Free Fringe flyer fight
Row as founder lays down the law on leaftleters
28/07/2016 … Free Fringe overlord Peter Buckley Hill is dictating which flyerers comedians at his Edinburgh venues can use.
© BBC/Pete Dadds Comics share their parenting tips
28/07/2016 … Comedians including Vic Reeves, Katherine Ryan and Sally Phillips will be sharing their child-raising tips in a new series called Parenting For Kids.
R4 orders Moore police comedy
Third series for It's A Fair Cop
28/07/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of It’s A Fair Cop from policeman-turned comedian Alfie Moore.
Second series for Maria Bamford's Lady Dynamite
28/07/2016 … MARIA BAMFORD'S comedy series Lady Dynamite has been renewed for a second series.
Tape Face makes America's Got Talent semis
28/07/2016 … Tape Face has made it to the semi-finals of America’s Got Talent.
Wed 27 July 2016
TapeFace divides America's Got Talent judges
During appearance on live heat
27/07/2016 … TapeFace appeared on the first live heat of America's Got Talent last night.
Comic wants help paying the cost of his sick joke
Crowdfunding plea in freedom of speech battle
27/07/2016 … Comedian Mike Ward has launched a crowdfunding appeal to pay his legal costs after being fined for cracking a bad-taste joke against a disabled teenager.
America tries to remake Peep Show (again)
Starz puts series into development
27/07/2016 … Peep Show is set to make a comeback – in America.
When is the new season of Black Mirror?
Netflix reveals release date and episode details
27/07/2016 … Netflix has announced that the next season of Black Mirror will drop on October 21.
Tue 26 July 2016
New comedy from Peep Show duo
...as stand-ups star in another C4 Blap
26/07/2016 … Channel 4 has released two more Comedy Blaps, including the first commission for Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's new production company.
You Magnificent Beast: Greg Davies to tour again
26/07/2016 … GREG DAVIES is to go on tour again – but not until autumn 2017.
Meet Edinburgh's kingmakers...
26/07/2016 … They are the industry movers and shakers almost every comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe will want to impress.
© Birmingham City University Citizen Khan character to be killed off
Adil Ray teases a plot from series 5
26/07/2016 … Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray says he’s going to kill off a character in the next series of the hit BBC One comedy.
Mon 25 July 2016
York honours Frankie Howerd
25/07/2016 … A plaque is to be unveiled at Frankie Howerd’s first home tomorrow.
Sky appoints a new comedy commissioner
Tilusha Ghelani joins from BBC
25/07/2016 … Comedy commissioner Tilusha Ghelani is leaving the BBC to join Sky.
© BBC 6.5million see Mrs Brown's Boys live
25/07/2016 … The live episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys attracted 6.
Sarah Millican announces Fringe gig
25/07/2016 … SARAH MILLICAN has been announced for one-off show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Minchin's Matilda sweeps Australian stage awards
And accolade for stand-up Tom Ballard
25/07/2016 … Tim Minchin’s Matilda musical has swept the board at Australia’s biggest stage awards.
BBC New Comedy Award: Who's through?
25/07/2016 … The full list of semi-finalists in the BBC Radio New Comedy Award are revealed today.
Sun 24 July 2016
An embarrassment of festivals
In London, Dublin, York, Norwich and South Shields
24/07/2016 … Sunday July 24LIVE IN LONDON: One of the best days at Just For Laughs London with your choice of fretful Mark Watson, compelling storyteller Glenn Wool or puppet-human…
Sat 23 July 2016
What makes Dylan Moran funny
23/07/2016 … This week's best comedy shows on demandWhat makes Dylan Moran funny?Ryan Hollinger releases a weekly video essay analysing art and entertainment.
Revealed: An unseen League Of Gentleman character
23/07/2016 … Reece Shearsmith has revealed a previously unheard League Of Gentleman character which never made it to the TV series.
Fri 22 July 2016
© BBC Oh brother! Siblings is cancelled
End of the line for BBC Three comedy
22/07/2016 … BBC Three has dropped Siblings after two series.
© BBC/Tiger Aspect Here's Jack Whitehall in Decline And Fall
First image as shooting starts on Waugh adaptation
22/07/2016 … Here is the first picture of Jack Whitehall on the set of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline And Fall.
The Fringe awards no one wants to win
22/07/2016 … • 'Critics have knocked me for targeting society's lowest common denominator I believe that television was, and still is, the only medium that can truly reach…
© Richard Wood R4 renews John Moloney's show
22/07/2016 … Radio 4 has ordered a second series of The John Moloney Show.
BoJack Horseman gets a fourth season
Netflix renews animated comedy
22/07/2016 … Netflix had ordered a fourth series of its animated comedy BoJack Horseman.
Thu 21 July 2016
Sick joke costs comedian £20,000
Mike Ward must pay damages for insulting disabled teen
21/07/2016 … A Canadian comedian has been ordered to pay just over £20,000 ($35,000) for making jokes at the expense of a disabled teenager.
Revealed: Alan Partridge's new book
Travel writing tome to be called Nomad
21/07/2016 … Alan Partridge's new book is to be called Nomad and released on October 20, it has been announced.
Lenny Henry is Chancellor
...of Birmingham City University
21/07/2016 … Lenny Henry has been made chancellor of Birmingham City University.
Red Dwarf XI: The first picture
Sci-fi comedy returns in September
21/07/2016 … The first picture has been released of the Red Dwarf cast back in their characters, four years after their last outing.
The dark side of improv
Mike Birbiglia explores comedy troupes in his new movie
21/07/2016 … Comedian Mike Birbiglia has made a movie about the dark side of improv troupes.
Matt Forde to front political comedy show for Dave
'There's never been a better time for this'
21/07/2016 … Stand-up and podcaster Matt Forde is to front a new political comedy series for Dave called Unspun.
Comedians to read the Chilcot Report – in full
It'll take two weeks, 24hrs a day
21/07/2016 … Comedians and activists including Omid Djalili, Stewart Lee and Reginald D Hunter are to read out loud the entire Chilcot Report into the Iraq War.
Veep actor loses his Emmy nomination
Peter MacNicol's appearances broke the rules
21/07/2016 … An actor from Veep has been stripped of his Emmy nomination – after organisers realised his performance was ineligible.
Simon Day is Waiting For Waiting For Godot
21/07/2016 … Brian Pern actor Simon Day is to star in a new play, set backstage at Waiting For Godot.
Wed 20 July 2016
Garry Marshall, giant of US comedy, dies
Legacy spans Happy Days to The Princess Princess Diaries
20/07/2016 … Garry Marshall, who created the sitcom Happy Days, has died at the age of 81.
America's Got Talent sticks with TapeFace
Act makes it to the live quarter-final
20/07/2016 … TapeFace has made it through to the live rounds of America’s Got Talent after using judge Howie Mandel as a stooge in his act.
Justin Moorhouse goes to the Olympics
Comic cuts Fringe run to cover Games
20/07/2016 … Justin Moorhouse has cancelled the first two weeks of his Edinburgh run to cover the Olympics for the major broadcaster that is… furniture store DFS.
Rare Kenny Everett footage uncovered
Local radio shows lost for four decades
20/07/2016 … Recordings of comedian Kenny Everett working on local radio stations have been unearthed after more than 40 years.
Now it's Dr Peter Kay
Honorary degree from his old uni
20/07/2016 … Peter Kay has received an honorary doctorate from his old university.
Nish Kumar fights deportation
...in a new film with Tez Ilyas
20/07/2016 … Tez Ilyas and Nish Kumar have made a short film about deporting immigrants for the BBC.
Tue 19 July 2016
David Baddiel sells film rights to The Parent Agency
Hollywood deal for his kids' book
19/07/2016 … David Baddiel has sold the film rights to his first children’s book, The Parent Agency.
Guests named for John Bishop's chat show
Corden, Coogan and Jo Brand among them
19/07/2016 … The full list of guests for John Bishop’s new chat show has been announced.
What a way to start a new job!
Chaos for comic Greg Burns as he joins Sydney radio station
19/07/2016 … British comic Greg Burns was gripped by panic on his first day DJing at an Australian radio station, after experiencing a technical meltdown.
Rhys Darby joins Australia's Whose Line?
With Steen Raskopoulos and more...
19/07/2016 … Rhys Darby has joined the team of improvisers on the new Australian version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?Also appearing alongside the Flight of the Conchords star…
'It's just too much. It shouldn't be like this'
Racist Twitter hell of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones
19/07/2016 … Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones has been forced off Twitter after being bombarded by sexist and racist abuse.
New tour AND TV series for Micky Flanagan
Sky travelogue ahead of 2017 stand-up dates
19/07/2016 … Micky Flanagan is filming a new six-part travelogue for Sky 1 – as well as planning a stand-up tour for next year.
BBC orders a series from Shane Todd
Break for Northern Irish stand-up
19/07/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a stand-up, sketch and interview series from Northern Irish comic Shane Todd.
Kevin Eldon joins Funny Cow
19/07/2016 … KEVIN ELDON has joined the cast of Funny Cow, the comedy-drama film about a woman who becomes a comedian on the Northern working men's club circuit in the 1970s…
Comic kidnapped and beaten over a sketch
19/07/2016 … A comedian has been kidnapped, beaten then dumped in the street by a musician he mocked in a sketch.
© Bafta Bafta LA to honour Ricky Gervais
'Provocative, edgy and pushes the boundaries'
19/07/2016 … Ricky Gervais is to receive the annual comedy award handed out by Bafta in Los Angeles.
Former BBC radio comedy chief John Pidgeon dies
19/07/2016 … Former BBC radio comedy boss John Pidgeon has died this morning at the age of 69.
Mon 18 July 2016
High on laughs
18/07/2016 … Fifty comedy fans climbed to the 3,553ft summit of Schiehallion in in Perth and Kinross for what’s billed at Britain’s highest comedy gig.
© PolizeiBerlin / Creative Commons Now Ofcom probes Queen jokes
More scrutiny for Don't Make Me Laugh
18/07/2016 … Ofcom is to investigate Radio 4 panel show over Don’t Make Me Laugh over jokes about the Queen.
'I'm not supposed to be here, but neither is Donald Trump'
Stephen Colbert gatecrashes Republican conference
18/07/2016 … Stephen Colbert has been escorted off the stage of the Republican National Convention after mocking Donald Trump.
Sun 17 July 2016
Sat 16 July 2016
The show funded by sitting on a hippo
16/07/2016 … The best comedy on demand.
Fri 15 July 2016
Simon has a baby Bird
15/07/2016 … • Actor Liev Shreiber says Steve Martin gave him 'probably the best boner I’ve ever had.
Joe Lycett lands presenting job
On Sky's Big Spell with Sue Perkins
15/07/2016 … Joe Lycett has landed a major presenting job, fronting Sky 1’s The Big Spell with Sue Perkins and Moira Stuart.
Thu 14 July 2016
© C4 Last Leg to air daily from Rio Paralympics
Primetime C4 slot for Hills' team
14/07/2016 … The Last Leg is to return for a nightly show every evening of the Rio Paralympics.
Comedy countdowns
Comedians list their Top Tens for BBC Three
14/07/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a series of 20 short films in which rising comedians make 'top ten' lists on whatever topics they choose.
Made it!
Comic gets from Lands' End to Edinburgh without spending a penny
14/07/2016 … Stand-up Damian Kingsley has made the trip from Lands' End to Edinburgh, without spending a penny.
© CBS Corden vs Seinfeld vs Oliver
14/07/2016 … James Corden is to go up against John Oliver and Jerry Seinfeld for an Emmy Award.
Wed 13 July 2016
Comedians die young
13/07/2016 … Comedians die earlier than other people – and funnier ones die younger.
Vikki Stone joins the Proms
13/07/2016 … Musical comedian Vikki Stone is joining the BBC Proms team.
Greg Davies does Who Do You Think You Are?
...as do Warwick Davis and Ricky Tomlinson
13/07/2016 … Greg Davies’s family tree is to be explored in the next series of Who Do You Think You Are? The comedian is one of ten celebrities to feature in the 13th series,…
Christmas special for Birds Of A Feather
Their first trip abroad in almost 20 years
13/07/2016 … Birds Of A Feather is to shoot an hour-long Christmas special overseas.
Billy Connolly announces new tour
14 English and Welsh dates in November
13/07/2016 … Billy Connolly has announced an England and Wales tour of his latest show, High Horse.
Tue 12 July 2016
Marc Maron axes his TV series
12/07/2016 … Marc Maron has pulled the plug on his US comedy series.
© C4/Ed Miller Catastrophe back for TWO more series
C4 backs Horgan and Delaney's comedy
12/07/2016 … Channel 4 has ordered TWO more series of Catastrophe.
Dawn French returns to the West End
Final run of her one-woman show
12/07/2016 … Dawn French, is to bring her one-woman show 30 Million Minutes back to London's West End.
Third series for So Awkward
CBBC renews geeky kids' sitcom
12/07/2016 … Children’s sitcom So Awkward has been renewed for a third series, before the second has even aired.
Brexit's worse than death...
Why Bridget Christie's scrapped her original Fringe show
12/07/2016 … Bridget Christie has scrapped her planned Edinburgh show to write about the Brexit vote instead.
Another David Walliams book adapted for the stage
The First Hippo On The Moon set for take-off
12/07/2016 … A second David Walliams children's book is to be adapted for the stage.
Aziz Ansari is ‘comedy person of the year'
Says Montreal's Just For Laughs
12/07/2016 … Aziz Ansari has been named ‘comedy person of the year’ by Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival.
Mon 11 July 2016
Viewers say British TV comedy is crucial
...but spending on the genre falls again
11/07/2016 … Almost three-quarters of viewers say that showing 'high quality comedy made in the UK' is a key part of public service broadcasting.
David Brent gives Doc Brown a promotion
11/07/2016 … A NEW poster has been released for Ricky Gervais's new David Brent movie, making more of the role played by Doc Brown.
Britcoms dominate Rose d'Ors
UK to scoop its 12 comedy prize in a row
11/07/2016 … This year’s international Rose d’Or Award for best sitcom will be won by a British comedy, as UK programmes swept the nominees.
Sun 10 July 2016
Some in tents comedy
Marquee festivals in York, Ealing and Central London
10/07/2016 … The comedy week ahead… Sunday July 10 LIVE IN EDINBURGH: Bawdy provocateur Jim Jefferies continues his no-nonsense Freedumb tour of the UK with a night…
Sat 09 July 2016
Two faces of Australian comedy
In the best new comedy on demand
09/07/2016 … This week’s best comedy shows on demand.
Fri 08 July 2016
© BBC/Boundless/Johann Perry Another road trip for Dara & Ed
Duo take the road to Mandalay for BBC Two
08/07/2016 … Dara O Briain and Ed Byrne are shooting a second travelogue together for BBC Two, Chortle can reveal.
Joe & Caspar hit the road again
08/07/2016 … YouTubers Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee have announced a UK tour to coincide with the launch of their second DVD.
You won't believe how Netflix describes Stewart Lee's show
08/07/2016 … • 'Ricky Gervais has got balls the size of watermelons.
Thu 07 July 2016
James Gilbert, the man who commissioned Fawlty Towers, checks out at 93
Former BBC comedy chief also produced The Two Ronnies
07/07/2016 … Former BBC comedy chief James Gilbert – the executive who commissioned Yes Minister and Fawlty Towers – has died at the age of 93.
'I'm insanely lucky to be alive'
Sarah Silveman hospitalised after 'freak' infection
07/07/2016 … Sarah Silverman says she's 'insanely lucky to be alive' after spending a week in intensive care.
© BBC/Scott Kershaw First look at the new Porridge
Kevin Bishop is Fletch in BBC reboot
07/07/2016 … Here is the first look at the BBC's reboot of classic sitcom Porridge.
© Hat Trick/BBC Pranksters vs Brexit politicians
One-off from Revolution Will Be Televised duo
07/07/2016 … BBC Two is to air a one-off satire about the EU referendum from the team behind The Revolution Will Be Televised.
© BBC Mrs Brown's Boys live TV episode confirmed
07/07/2016 … THE live episode of Mrs Brown's Boys is to air on July 23 the BBC has confirmed.
Trust set up to help new comedy writers
In honour of Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs
07/07/2016 … Fans and friends of Reginald Perrin creator David Nobbs have set up a trust in his name to support new comedy writing.
Wed 06 July 2016
Watchdog raps Kayvan Novak ad
Bookies' commercial was misleading
06/07/2016 … An advert for bookmakers Paddy Power featuring Fonejacker star Kayvan Novak has been banned for being misleading.
Lee Mack becomes a kids' TV presenter
Duck Quacks Don't Echo goes to children's telly
06/07/2016 … Sky is creating a child-friendly version of Lee Mack’s comedy science panel show Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.
Filming starts on Chewing Gum series 2
06/07/2016 … FILMING has begun on the second series of Michaela Coel's much-acclaimed E4 comedy Chewing Gum.
Tue 05 July 2016
© BBC Goodnight Sweetheart to return
Time-travel sitcom back after 17 years
05/07/2016 … BBC One is to make another episode of Goodnight Sweetheart – 17 years after the last.
English Comedian Of The Year named
05/07/2016 … JOSH PUGH was named English Comedian Of The Year at the Udderbelly in London last night, winning £1,500 a trip to the Adelaide and Perth Fringe festivals next…
Olivia Lee shoots US pilot
05/07/2016 … Olivia Lee is to make her own US pilot with Ben Stiller’s production company.
Bill Bailey to become a cartoon cat
Voicing the new Winnie The Witch cartoon
05/07/2016 … Bill Bailey is to play the ‘loyal and lovable’ Wilbur the cat in the new cartoon adaptation of the Winnie The Witch books.
Major comedy festival cancelled
05/07/2016 … A major comedy festival featuring the likes of Jason Manford, Chris Ramsey and Stewart Francis has been pulled with less than two week’s notice.
Sun 03 July 2016
Sample 28 Fringe shows on one night
03/07/2016 … Sunday July 3LIVE IN DERBY: The Funhouse Comedy Club hosts one of it's pre-Edinburgh all-dayers at Bar One, where a feast of comedians run through their Fringe…
Jasper Cromwell-Jones is Old Comedian Of The Year
03/07/2016 … JOE BOR has won this year's Old Comedian Of The Year competition run by London's Leicester Square Theatre in the guise of privileged adventurer Jasper Cromwell-Jones.
Sat 02 July 2016
Sam Kinison's final stand-up special
02/07/2016 … This week's round-up of the best comedy shows on demand.
Caroline Aherne dies at 52
Comedian had been battling cancer
02/07/2016 … Royle Family star Caroline Aherne has died at the age of 52 after a battle with cancer, her publicist has said.
Fri 01 July 2016
Tikka to ride
01/07/2016 … • Chris Ramsey made headlines across the world when he harnessed the power of Twitter to get a pizza delivered to him on a moving train between London and Newcastle…
Thu 30 June 2016
© PolizeiBerlin / Creative Commons BBC apologises over 'offensive' Queen jokes
Rap for David Baddiel's Radio 4 comedy
30/06/2016 … The BBC has apologised over jokes about the Queen’s sex life that were judged a ‘serious breach’ of editorial guidelines.
Tape Face ripped off
30/06/2016 … Silent comedy act Tape Face has called out a Brazilian TV show for stealing his act.
New tech stops phones recording gigs
30/06/2016 … Fans filming comedy shows on their phones could be a thing of a past, thanks to a new Apple invention.
Digital demons
Awards for Spencer Jones, Successville and Chewing Gum
30/06/2016 … Spencer Jones, Murder In Successville and Chewing Gum have all scooped accolades at the Broadcast Digital Awards.
© CBS James Corden's talk show to air in the UK
30/06/2016 … The Late Late Show with James Corden is to be screened in the UK for the first time.
Russell Kane does Question Time
30/06/2016 … ◼ RUSSELL KANE is to appear on Question Time tonight - the first episode of the news debate show since the EU referendum.
Ricky Gervais announces David Brent gigs
Two nights at Hammersmith Apollo
30/06/2016 … Ricky Gervais is to play two major gigs as David Brent.
Blunkett brands TV prankster 'silly and pathetic'
Was Heydon Prowse exploiting peer's blindness?
30/06/2016 … David Blunkett has slammed TV prankster Heydon Prowse as 'pathetic' for trying to con him into smearing Jeremy Corbyn.
Wed 29 June 2016
Hollywood honours Hugh Laurie and Sarah Silverman
29/06/2016 … Hugh Laurie, Sarah Silverman and Jeffrey Tambor are to get their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Shirley Ghostman gigs finally materialise
Cancelled shows back on – 12 months late
29/06/2016 … Gigs postponed by psychic comedy character Shirley Ghostman have finally been rescheduled – a full year after they were initially cancelled.
© Liberal Democrats / Creative Commons Lembit Opik tries comedy again
Ex-MP stars in Fringe musical about his 'heroic failures'
29/06/2016 … Lembit Opik is taking a second stab at a comedy career, by starring in a musical at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Tue 28 June 2016
Here's some good news for Russell Howard
28/06/2016 … Russell Howard's Good News is up for a TV Choice Award.
Tom Rosenthal pilots ITV2 panel show
Team captain opposite Geordie Shore's Vicky Pattison
28/06/2016 … Tom Rosenthal is set to be a team captain on a new ITV2 panel show opposite Vicky Pattison.
James Van Der Beek joins Sky1 comedy
Dawsons Creek star in Carters Get Rich
28/06/2016 … Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek has joined the cast of Sky1's new family sitcom about a boy who becomes an internet millionaire.
FriendsFest to tour the UK
See Rachel & Monica's apartment... for £24
28/06/2016 … FriendsFest, the interactive exhibition dedicated to the US sitcom, is to make a UK tour.
Mon 27 June 2016
Louis CK announces Edinburgh date
27/06/2016 … Louis CK is to play a gig in Edinburgh during the Fringe.
See candid shots of BBC comedy stars
New exhibition from the archive
27/06/2016 … Scores of candid photographs of BBC comedy stars caught in unguarded moments on set are to go on display next month.
Anti-semites target Simon Brodkin
Former KKK Grand Wizard reacts after Trump stunt
27/06/2016 … Simon Brodkin's stunt against Donald Trump on Friday has put him on the radar of the Ku Klux Klan, who have highlighted his Jewish heritage.
Fringe benefit line-up announced
27/06/2016 … THE line-up has been announced for the Edinburgh Comedy Gala in aid of HIV charity Waverley Care.
Sun 26 June 2016
The best head West
Bristol Comedy Festival and the rest of the comedy week ahead
26/06/2016 … What's on in comedy this week.
Sat 25 June 2016
H-h-h-h-Hancock's h-h-h-h-idden gems
25/06/2016 … The week's best comedy on demand.
Cosby accuser drops case
His lawyers says it shows he's innocent
25/06/2016 … One of the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her in 1965 has dropped a defamation case against the comedian.
Fri 24 June 2016
Paul Sinha to make his panto debut
24/06/2016 … PAUL SINHA is to make his pantomime debut.
Andrew Lawrence's Brexit gloat
24/06/2016 … •'I've thrown all my eyeliner in the bin,' Russell Kane.
Comedians disrupt Donald Trump visit
With Nazi golf balls and sweary banners
24/06/2016 … Comedians Lee Nelson and Janey Godley have disrupted Donald Trump’s visit to Scotland today.
Horrible Histories is back
For a one-off special about authors
24/06/2016 … Horrible Histories is to return for another one-off special, with Mel Giedroyc returning as a guest star The team are making a show about Staggering Storytellers…
Thu 23 June 2016
Griff Rhys Jones announces comedy tour
23/06/2016 … Griff Rhys Jones is to embark on his first solo comedy tour, inspired by the death of his long-term professional partner Mel Smith.
First look at Sarah Jessica Parker in Divorce
23/06/2016 … HBO has released the first footage of Sarah Jessica Parker in Divorce, the new comedy written by Sharon Horgan.
From Iron Throne to chat-show sofa
Comedy pilot for Game Of Thrones' Gemma Whelan
23/06/2016 … In Game Of Thrones she is the fearsome warrior queen Yara Greyjoy.
© BBC BBC appoints a new panel show chief
Kate Phillips also gets the Top Gear poisoned chalice
23/06/2016 … The BBC is to appoint a new controller of entertainment commissioning, responsible for panel shows including Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week and Would I Lie…
Wed 22 June 2016
Folk-comedy star Bob Williamson dies at 67
Pioneer of the pre-alternative scene
22/06/2016 … Bob Williamson, one of the pioneering generation of folk-club comedians, has died at the age of 67.
Third series for Scot Squad
22/06/2016 … Scot Squad is to return for a third series, with filming getting under way in Glasgow this week.
Tue 21 June 2016
© Gage Skidmore / Creative Commons Mark Hamill joins Man Down
Star Wars hero in Greg Davies sitcom
21/06/2016 … Luke Skywalker is joining Greg Davies comedy Man Down.
Hannibal Buress joins Spider-Man: Homecoming
21/06/2016 … Hannibal Buress has landed a role in the new Spider-Man: Homecoming movie.
La Soiree returns to London
Spiegeltent to be erected in Leicester Square
21/06/2016 … Variety-burlesque night La Soiree is retuning to London's West End, with a wooden Spiegeltent erected in Leicester Square.
© HBO Sky shelves Last Week Tonight
...over John Oliver's pro-Remain rant
21/06/2016 … Sky Atlantic has dropped a planned broadcast of John Olvier's Last Week Tonight because of its pro-Remain message.
Baddiel wins children's writing prize
'Lollies' accolade for The Parent Agency
21/06/2016 … David Baddiel has won a prize for his children's writing.
Mon 20 June 2016
Jongleurs loses its Glasgow venue
Nightclub loses its licence over lock-ins
20/06/2016 … Jongleurs has been forced to close its Glasgow comedy club after the venue it used was stripped of its alcohol licence – just two months after the stand-up…
YouTube stars play Britain's biggest theatres
FouseyTUBE and Roman Atwood announce UK tour
20/06/2016 … Two American YouTube stars are coming to the UK, to some of the country's biggest theatre.
David Baddiel to transfer to the West End
20/06/2016 … DAVID BADDIEL's critically acclaimed stand-up show My Family: Not The Sitcom is to transfer to the West End.
Paul Whitehouse joins Death Of Stalin cast
Armando Iannucci’s movie starts filming today
20/06/2016 … Paul Whitehouse has joined the cast of Armando Iannucci's movie The Death of Stalin.
Gary: Tank Commander to sing at the Proms
Greg McHugh to take the stage in Glasgow
20/06/2016 … Gary: Tank Commander is to sing in this year's BBC Proms In The Park.
Sun 19 June 2016
Baddiel and Skinner reunited
19/06/2016 … The comedy week ahead…Sunday June 19LIVE IN LONDON: David Cross continues his Making America Great Again! Tour at the Forum in Kentish Town.
Sat 18 June 2016
© BBC Eerie riddle of the Young Ones' mysterious fifth flatmate
You'll never watch the sitcom in quite the same way again...
18/06/2016 … Easy one for comedy trivia fans: How many housemates were there in The Young Ones?If you said four, you are wrong.
Fri 17 June 2016
BBC Two gives Mum a second series
Lesley Manville to return as widowed Cathy
17/06/2016 … BBC Two sitcom Mum is to return for a second series.
Janeane Garofalo joins Foreign Bodies
17/06/2016 … E4’s backpacking comedy Foreign Bodies has signed up Janeane Garofalo as a regular guest star.
Angelos and Barry to tour
17/06/2016 … Angelos Epithemiou and Barry From Watford are to tour together.
Chris Ramsey shoots Comedy Central pilot
17/06/2016 … Chris Ramsey is making a pilot for Comedy Central.
'Sounds like offensive nonsense to me...'
17/06/2016 … • 'A lot of comedy is removing what isn't funny, it's like sculpting.
Is Fags, Mags & Bags to go on tour?
Sanjeev Kohli 'fired up' by the idea
17/06/2016 … Cult Radio 4 comedy Fags Mags and Bags could become a live show.
Thu 16 June 2016
Catastrophe to be remade in French
16/06/2016 … Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s comedy Catastrophe is to be remade in French.
David McSavage fined for TV licence evasion
Anti-RTE stance costs him €125
16/06/2016 … Irish comedian David McSavage has been convicted and fined €125 for not paying his TV licence fee.
Look who's in the David Brent movie
16/06/2016 … Comedians Kevin Bishop, Roisin Conaty and Diane Morgan are all starring alongside Ricky Gervais in the David Brent: Life On The Road movie.
© BBC Mock The Week dropped after MP's killing
Episode pulled out of respect to Jo Cox
16/06/2016 … The BBC has dropped tonight’s episode of Mock The Week following the killing of MP Jo Cox.
Anna Wintour does stand-up
Watch Vogue editor's sketch with Amy Schumer
16/06/2016 … Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has tried stand-up for a new online video.
Wed 15 June 2016
Clement Freud accused of child abuse
Widow 'profoundly sorry for what happened'
15/06/2016 … Late politician and Just A Minute regular Sir Clement Freud has been named as a paedophile.
Alan Carr goes to the prom
15/06/2016 … ALAN CARR is to host a two-hour celebration of 1950s Americana, called Prom Night Live, for Channel 4.
Tue 14 June 2016
Curb Your Enthusiasm to return
Larry David says yes to series 9
14/06/2016 … Curb Your Enthusiasm is to return for a ninth series.
© BBC/Colin Hutton Second series for Upstart Crow
David Mitchell to return in Ben Elton's comedy
14/06/2016 … BBC Two has ordered a second series of Ben Elton's Shakespearean sitcom Upstart Crow.
Alf actor dies at 76
2ft 9in 'Michu' started as a circus performer
14/06/2016 … The actor who occupied the ALF costume in the 1980s sitcom has died at the age of 76.
© Mark Dunne / Creative Commons Bill Murray to get comedy honour
Star named as Mark Twain award winner
14/06/2016 … Bill Murray is to receive one of the biggest honours in US comedy: The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Matt Lucas returns to Doctor Who
14/06/2016 … Matt Lucas is to return to Doctor Who.
Netflix buys David Brent movie
Ricky Gervais's delight at deal
14/06/2016 … Netflix has bought the worldwide rights to David Brent: Life On The Road.
Mon 13 June 2016
15 comedy shows in a day
Sketch duo hope to set new record
13/06/2016 … Comedy duo The Sketch Men are attempting to set a new record for the most gigs performed in 24 hours.
Doug Anthony All Stars play London
13/06/2016 … EDINBURGH Fringe legends The Doug Anthony Allstars have announced a week of London dates.
Alan Davies to star in football film
About the worst team in England
13/06/2016 … Alan Davies is to star in a film about the worst football team in England.
Rhod's Andes adventure
Tackling the Inca trail for charity
13/06/2016 … Rhod Gilbert is to trek to Machu Picchu for charity.
Comedy industry votes Remain
13/06/2016 … A disparate group of comedians and comedy industry figures have announced their support for Britain to stay in the EU.
Comedians' Guide To Survival hits screens
Montreal's Just For Laughs to get first look
13/06/2016 … The movie about a struggling stand-up based on the real-life exploits of British comic James Mullinger is to get its first preview at Montreal's Just For Laughs…
Sun 12 June 2016
Todd Barry scripts you not...
12/06/2016 … Sunday June 13LIVE IN BRISTOL: The city's annual Slapstick Festival of silent and vintage comedy is holding a starry fundraiser at the Colston Hall.
Don't say 'midget', Warwick Davis urges comics
'It's a cheap laugh - but offensive'
12/06/2016 … Warwick Davis has called on comics to stop using the word ‘midget’ to get a 'cheap laugh’.
Sat 11 June 2016
Be in Family Guy
Producers launch global competition
11/06/2016 … One Family Guy fan is to be immortalised as an animated character in the show.
Fri 10 June 2016
© BBC Citizen Khan OBE
10/06/2016 … Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray has been made an OBE in a the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours list He tweeted: ‘So humbled to be part of #BirthdayHonours.
Sky orders dotcom millionaire comedy
With John Finnemore and Kerry Godliman
10/06/2016 … Sky1 has ordered a family sitcom about a boy who becomes an internet millionaire, Chortle can reveal.
Inbetweeners reunite (kinda)
Joe Thomas and James Buckley co-star in new sitcom
10/06/2016 … Inbetweeners duo Joe Thomas and James Buckley are to reunite for a new sitcom.
I thought a boob job would boost my stripping career
10/06/2016 … • 'Showbiz is a fickle old twat, who loves you one minute and then sleeps with Russell Brand behind your back.
Disney releases Bec Hill's animation
Comic's football short for Euro 2016
10/06/2016 … Comedian Bec Hill has made a short animated film for Disney.
Thu 09 June 2016
Australia remakes Who's Line...?
09/06/2016 … Australia is to make its own version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Comedian Tommy Little will host ten episodes of the improv format for The Comedy Channel, which…
Jimmy Carr to present Horizon
Special looking at the science of comedy
09/06/2016 … Jimmy Carr is to host an episode of the BBC's flagship science strand, Horizon.
Comedy Central's online push
Starting with a show from JaackMaate
09/06/2016 … Comedy Central is to commission more short-form videos in a bid to grow its online traffic.
BBC Three goes into the Big Field
Surreal comedy shorts commissioned
09/06/2016 … BBC Three is to release a series of surreal comedy shorts with scenes acted out from mash-ups of old audio recordings.
Wed 08 June 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen's next trick...
Starring in planned Mandrake the Magician movie
08/06/2016 … Sacha Baron Cohen is set to star in a movie based on the comic strip Mandrake the Magician.
Edinburgh Fringe programme launched
08/06/2016 … The Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has been officially launched today, boasting 50,266 performances of 3,269 shows from in 294 venues.
'Tiity joke caused me mental distress'
Titi Pierce sues Ellen Degeneres
08/06/2016 … An estate agent called Titi Pierce is suing Ellen DeGeneres for making fun of her name.
Izzard vs Farage
Comedian joins Question Time panel
08/06/2016 … Eddie Izzard is to come face-to-face with Nigel Farage on tomorrow’s Question Time.
Noel Fielding's album released
08/06/2016 … LOOSE TAPESTRIES, the band Noel Fielding formed with Kasabian’s Sergio Pizzorno, have released their second album, NHS.
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally announce UK gig
Sex secrets of their marriage...
08/06/2016 … Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are coming to the UK and Ireland with a variety show promising to expose the ‘salacious details’ of their marriage.
Tue 07 June 2016
Jack Whitehall to star in Decline And Fall
Lead role in BBC Two mini-series
07/06/2016 … Jack Whitehall is to star in the BBC’s adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline And Fall.
Mon 06 June 2016
© BBC Frankie Boyle's Autopsy to look at US election
06/06/2016 … Frankie Boyle is to host another 'autopsy' special for the BBC, this time on the US presidential election.
Delays hit Tim Minchin's Groundhog Day
Cast 'need more rehearsal time'
06/06/2016 … Tim Minchin’s stage version of Groundhog Day has been been delayed, with producers saying they need more time for rehearsals.
Dave orders a new fantasy comedy series
Starring Inbetweener James Buckley
06/06/2016 … Inbetweeners actor James Buckley is to star in a new fantasy comedy for the Dave channel.
Comedy's future: Russ Abbot and Morecambe & Wise
Oldies dominate BBC's sitcom showcase
06/06/2016 … The BBC's quest to find the comedy hits of the future has turned its attention to… Russ Abbot and Morecambe And Wise.
© HBO John Oliver's $15m giveaway!
Comic eases debt fears for 9,000 Americans
06/06/2016 … John Oliver's comedy show has wiped out $15million of debt from the American public.
Sun 05 June 2016
© BBC/Open Mike/Ellis O’Brien
© C4/Ed Miller Another award for Catastrophe
Comedy honoured at South Bank Sky Arts ceremony
05/06/2016 … Catastrophe has won this year’s South Bank Sky Arts award for comedySharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Channel 4 sitcom saw off competition from fellow nominees…
Sat 04 June 2016
Amber Heard sues Doug Stanhope
Lawsuit over comic's claim she was blackmailing Johnny Depp
04/06/2016 … Doug Stanhope is being sued by Amber Heard for claiming that she is blackmailing her estranged husband Johnny Depp.
Fri 03 June 2016
© HBO When John met Jerry
03/06/2016 … JERRY SEINFELD is to chat to John Oliver in the next season of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
Now it's Victoria (Wood) station
03/06/2016 … • 'John Dowie is the archaeopteryx of alternative comedy, in that the fossil record makes no sense without him.
Long to reign over us...
03/06/2016 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its royal family comedy The Windsors.
Izzard honoured for outstanding achievement
03/06/2016 … Eddie Izzard has won the outstanding achievement accolade at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts awards.
Thu 02 June 2016
Speed demons
Chortle's Fast Fringe line-ups revealed
02/06/2016 … Chortle can today announced the line-up for our Fast Fringe showcases ahead of the Edinburgh festival.
Amy Schumer to make her UK debut
02/06/2016 … Amy Schumer is to perform her first ever stand-up shows in the UK.
Angel gets its wings
Comedy club hits its £20k target in ten days
02/06/2016 … London’s Angel Comedy Club has raised the £20,000 it needed to refit a new dedicated venue in just ten days.
Wed 01 June 2016
© BBC BBC confirms return of Peter Kay's Car Share
01/06/2016 … The BBC has confirmed that Peter Kay’s Car Share will be returning for a second series – but for just four more episodes.
Edinburgh comedy awards get a new sponsor
Lastminute.com take over the 'Perrier'
01/06/2016 … This year’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards are to be sponsored by travel website lastminute.
Tape Face wows America's Got Talent
01/06/2016 … The Boy With Tape On His Face has wowed judges and the audience at his audition for America's Got Talent.
Comedians give 'Dave Talks'
01/06/2016 … Nick Helm, James Acaster, John Kearns and Katy Wix are among the comics who have made new online shorts for the Dave TV channel.
Cinema release for Set The Thames On Fire
Dark comedy with Noel Fielding
01/06/2016 … Set The Thames On Fire – a dark comedy film starring Noel Fielding, Sally Phillips and Morgana Robinson – has been given a limited cinema release.
Kevin Eldon stars in music video
Micko Westmoreland's Schmescos
01/06/2016 … Kevin Eldon is starring in a music video from Micko Westmoreland.
Tue 31 May 2016
Carla Lane dies at 87
Writer of Bread, Butterfiles and The Liver Birds
31/05/2016 … Sitcom writer Carla Lane has died at the age of 87.
Don Johnson joins Rupert Grint in Sick Note
From Miami Vice to Sky Atlantic
31/05/2016 … Miami Vice star Don Johnson has joined Rupert Grint and Nick Frost in the Sky Atlantic comedy Sick Note.
Amazon renews Transparent for series four
Jeffrey Tambor to return as Maura Pfefferman
31/05/2016 … Acclaimed comedy Transparent is to return for a fourth series, Amazon has announced.
Revealed: Details of Noel Fielding's Japan show
31/05/2016 … Noel Fielding’s programme about Japanese gameshows is to be a one-off hour-long special, Channel 4 has announced.
Ardal O'Hanlon tours Ireland for More 4
With Victorian guidebooks for tips
31/05/2016 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to explore his homeland in a new travel series for More 4.
RIP America's favourite heckler
Irving Benson tormented Milton Berle
31/05/2016 … The most famous heckler from the golden days of American TV has died at the age of 102.
Sun 29 May 2016
The Cat's out of the bag
Kilkenny festival and the rest of the comedy week ahead
29/05/2016 … The comedy week ahead.
Sat 28 May 2016
Fri 27 May 2016
The Now Show goes to war
27/05/2016 … Radio 4’s topical comedy The Now Show is to air a special edition based around the First World War.
Festivals announce comedy line-ups
27/05/2016 … ACTS have been announced for the Balham Comedy Festival in South London, which will run from July 8 to 16.
Elis James travels to Euro 16 for the BBC
For online shorts and radio show
27/05/2016 … Elis James is to front a series of comedy shorts about Euro 2016 for the BBC.
© BBC/So Television/Christopher Baines Nipple clamps and a strap-on called Godzilla
27/05/2016 … • 'When you are doing stand-up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.
Thu 26 May 2016
Barry Crimmins comes to UK
US comic who fought child porn
26/05/2016 … Barry Crimmins, the American stand-up who has actively helped clear child pornography from the internet, is to perform in the UK for the first time in 30 years.
Eddie Izzard: My homophobic abuse at FA Cup Final
Crystal Palace fan called him 'a disgrace'
26/05/2016 … Eddie Izzard says he was subjected to homophobic abuse at the FA Cup final at the weekend.
© BBC Hitchhikers' Guide returns to Radio 4
With unpublished Douglas Adams material
26/05/2016 … The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is returning to Radio 4 with its first series in more than a decade – and featuring John Lloyd as the Voice of The Book.
© C4 / Dave Brown Noel Fielding's Japanese gameshow gameshow
26/05/2016 … Noel Fielding is piloting a new Channel 4 series based on Japanese gameshows.
Count Arthur Strong to appear in panto
Alongside Paul Zerdin, Paul O'Grady and Julian Clary
26/05/2016 … Count Arthur Strong is to make his real-life pantomime debut.
Tape Face Got Talent
Silent comic to appear on American series
26/05/2016 … The Boy With Tape On His Face is to appear in the new series of America's Got Talent.
Gold drops You Me & Them
26/05/2016 … THE Gold TV channel has dropped its sitcom You, Me & Them.
Wed 25 May 2016
Channel 4 gets Damned
Social work sitcom with Jo Brand, Alan Davies and Kevin Eldon
25/05/2016 … Jo Brand's social work sitcom, Damned, has been picked up by Channel 4.
Rhod Gilbert's crowdfunding experience
TV producers turn to Kickstarter to get DVD out
25/05/2016 … Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience could be coming out on DVD… if a crowdfunding drive pays off.
Greg Burns to leave Capital Radio
25/05/2016 … Comedian Greg Burns is leaving his Capital Radio show and moving to Australia.
Griff Rhys Jones returns to the West End
25/05/2016 … Griff Rhys Jones is to return to the stage for the first time in more than six years.
Jack Dee to star in Power Monkeys
Cast announced for C4's ultra-topical comedy
25/05/2016 … Jack Dee, Ben Willbond and Claire Skinner are to star in Channel 4's new ultra-topical comedy show Power Monkeys.
Bill Burr announces UK dates
Including a night at the Edinburgh Fringe
25/05/2016 … Bill Burr is to return to the UK for the first time in three years, Chortle can reveal.
What's inside No 9 this year?
25/05/2016 … Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have revealed details of the stories in the third series of Inside No 9.
© Gary Knight / Creative Commons Jeremy Corbyn to appear on The Last Leg
25/05/2016 … JEREMY CORBYN is to be the first guest on the new series of The Last Leg, producers have announced.
More court Glee for comedy club chain
Makers of TV show cannot take trademark appeal to Europe
25/05/2016 … The Glee chain of comedy clubs has won another round in their long-running legal battle against the makers of the Glee TV show.
Tue 24 May 2016
© Eva Rinaldi / Creative Commons Rebel Wilson to make West End debut
24/05/2016 … Australian comic turned Hollywood star Rebel Wilson is to make her West End debut in Guys and Dolls.
Rupert Grint stars in new Sky comedy
Harry Potter star joins Nick Frost in Sick Note
24/05/2016 … Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is shooting a new comedy for Sky Atlantic with Nick Frost.
Undateable star makes UK stand-up debut
Ron Funches to play Soho Theatre
24/05/2016 … American comedian Ron Funches is to make his UK debut next month.
Burt Kwouk dies at 85
Sidekick to Inspector Clouseau... and Harry Hill
24/05/2016 … Burt Kwouk, who played Inspector Clouseau’s manservant Cato in seven Pink Panther films, has died aged 85.
Bill Cosby to stand trial for assault
Judge rules he has a case to answer
24/05/2016 … Bill Cosby is to stand trial over an alleged a sexual assault from 2004.
America to remake Raised by Wolves
Juno writer Diablo Cody works on scripts
24/05/2016 … Channel 4 comedy Raised By Wolves is being adapted for American TV by Diablo Cody, the writer of Juno.
Simon Pegg joins Terminal movie
24/05/2016 … Simon Pegg has joined the cast of film noir thriller Terminal.
Mon 23 May 2016
Josie Long shoots her first feature film
Cast includes Janey Godley, Sanjeev Kohli & Matt Winning
23/05/2016 … Josie Long is making her first feature film, a 'twee romantic comedy' that turns into a dystopian, police state thriller.
Time travelling comedy for David Mitchell
23/05/2016 … David Mitchell is to star in a new time-travelling sitcom.
Angel spreads its wings
Comedy club's crowdfunding bid as it finds a new home
23/05/2016 … London’s Angel Comedy Club is poised to open a new purpose-built venue – and has turned to crowdfunding to make it happen.
© ITV Lenny Henry joins Broadchurch
As do Roy Hudd and Charlie Higson
23/05/2016 … Sir Lenny Henry, Charlie Higson and Roy Hudd have joined the cast of Broadchurch.
Sun 22 May 2016
Dave Johns film wins the Palme D'Or
Ken Loach movie scoops top prize at Cannes
22/05/2016 … Comedian Dave Johns’s film I Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or – the top award at the Cannes film festival Directed by Ken Loach, Johns plays the…
BBC 'thinks Scots are dumber than the English'
Comedy writer's bombshell claims
22/05/2016 … A comedy writer has claimed BBC executives told him to pitch a script to BBC Two rather than BBC Scotland – because Scottish viewers are stupider than their English…
Sat 21 May 2016
BBC Three just got more Witless
Second series for Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle comedy
21/05/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a second series of Witless, the sitcom starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle as flatmates put into the witness protection programme.
Mr Ed's human star dies
21/05/2016 … Alan Young, who starred in the talking horse sitcom Mr Ed, has at the age of 96.
Fri 20 May 2016
Tony Robinson joins Man Down
20/05/2016 … Sir Tony Robinson is to return to comedy, with a new role in Man Down.
BFI preserves comedy training videos
Titles from John Cleese's Video Arts
20/05/2016 … Corporate training videos featuring comedians are to be preserved by the British Film Institute.
Watch Stephen Fry in his new US sitcom
CBS release The Great Indoors trailer
20/05/2016 … The first trailer has been released for Stephen Fry's new US sitcom, The Great Indoors.
The dangers of inflation...
20/05/2016 … • 'There's an inherent anger in English audiences' Russell Howard.
© BBC/King Bert BBC orders Walliams & Friend series
Jack Whitehall to be guest star
20/05/2016 … Sketch show David Walliams and Friends has been given a full series on BBC One.
Thu 19 May 2016
Marxism rises again...
'Lost' Marx Bros revue is revived
19/05/2016 … A 'lost' Marx Brothers musical is to open off Broadway later this month.
Second London date for Louis CK
19/05/2016 … Louis CK has announced a second London date this summer The comic will be appearing at the SSE Arena Wembley on Saturday August 13 as well as Friday August 12,…
Anger over Shirley Ghostman's phantom gigs
19/05/2016 … Fans of spiritualist comedy character Shirley Ghostman are up in arms after shows he cancelled seven months ago have still not been rescheduled.
© Dave Morris / Creative Commons BBC goes to 'Hogwarts'
19/05/2016 … The BBC is moving its Edinburgh Fringe hub to the grounds of the prestigious private school said to have inspired Hogwarts.
Finally! Limmy shown south of the border
19/05/2016 … Limmy’s Show is to be broadcast nationwide for the first time.
Wed 18 May 2016
Erdogan 'goat-shagging' poem banned
German courts issue injunction against comic
18/05/2016 … A German court has slapped an injunction on comedian Jan Böhmermann, preventing him repeating his poem insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
'Desperate Housewives on acid'
Channel 4 buys hit Belgian comedy
18/05/2016 … Channel 4 has picked up the rights to a hit Belgian comedy dubbed 'Desperate Housewives on acid'.
Sky orders Irish comedy shorts
From Jason Byrne, Katherine Ryan and others
18/05/2016 … Sky has revealed details of its next batch of comedy shorts, including films from Jason Byrne, Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Al Porter.
When Jack met Becks
Whitehall makes online interview show for GQ
18/05/2016 … Jack Whitehall has launched a new online video series, featuring David Beckham in the first episode.
Tue 17 May 2016
A bit more Fry and Laurie
Unseen scripts to be published
17/05/2016 … Swathes of unseen Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie scripts are set to be published in a new book.
Ooh matron! Carry On films are coming back
Carry On Doctors to go into production
17/05/2016 … The Carry On film franchise is to be revived after 25 years.
Heckler glasses comedian on stage
Watch footage of James Loveridge being attacked
17/05/2016 … CCTV footage has emerged of a heckler hurling a glass at a comedian on stage, drawing blood.
Comedian to walk the entire London Tube network
Ben Van der Velde's fundraiser for refugees
17/05/2016 … Comedian Ben Van der Velde is to walk the 350 miles of the London Underground network within a month, to raise money for the Refugee Council.
Joe Lycett tests out new talk show
With Have I Got News For You producers
17/05/2016 … Joe Lycett is testing out a new celebrity chat show.
Jason Byrne writes his childhood memoirs
17/05/2016 … Jason Byrne is writing his first book, a memoir about his mischievous childhood escapades between the ages of five and 16.
Burnistoun duo head for London
17/05/2016 … BURNISTOUN creators Iain Connell and Robert Florence are to make their London debut with their new live show, Uncles.
Mon 16 May 2016
Benidorm star Tim Healy taken ill
16/05/2016 … Benidorm star Tim Healy has been airlifted to hospital in Manchester after contracting a mystery illness while filming in Spain.
Felicity Ward scoops New Zealand award
16/05/2016 … FELICITY WARD was last night named best international comedian at the New Zealand comedy festival for her show, What If There Is No Toilet?, about mental illness…
BBC to release Jail Mates
Series order for Gary Little and Julia Sutherland comedy
16/05/2016 … Prison comedy Jail Mates, created by comedians Gary Little and Julia Sutherland, has been picked up for a full series by the BBC.
Michael McIntyre to tour Australia
Arena dates announced for October
16/05/2016 … Michael McIntyre is to embark on an arena tour of Australia.
It's the way I retell 'em!
Frank Carson is the subject of new stage play
16/05/2016 … NOTE: The run of the show mentioned below has been cancelled since this story was published.
Louis CK announces London date
16/05/2016 … Louis CK has announced a London date – his first in the UK for three years.
Sun 15 May 2016
Again! A-Gein!
BBC orders second series from sketch troupe
15/05/2016 … Gein's Family Giftshop are to make a second series of their BBC Radio Wales sketch show.
Sat 14 May 2016
Blackpool club legend Jack Diamond dies
14/05/2016 … JACK DIAMOND, a North West club comedian who ran his own talent night in Blackpool for 25 years, has died at the age of 75.
Jack Whitehall announces tour
At Large kicks off in February 2017
14/05/2016 … Jack Whitehall is to launch his ‘biggest tour ever’ early next year.
Fri 13 May 2016
Morecambe's mementos on display
13/05/2016 … Some of Eric Morecambe's personal artefacts are to go on display for the first time tomorrow.
Joan Rivers' family settle lawsuit
'Those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility'
13/05/2016 … Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa has settled the lawsuit with the New York clinic where the comedian went into cardiac arrest.
The Muppets are stuffed
Broadcaster ABC axes the reboot
13/05/2016 … The reboot of The Muppets TV show has been axed after just one season.
Michael Palin to star in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote movie
...and he's in Armando Iannucci's new satire
13/05/2016 … Michael Palin is set to star as Don Quixote in a new film from Monty Python colleague Terry Gilliam.
James Acaster hits Germany
Exclusive clip as new raft of online shows announced
13/05/2016 … James Acaster is to launch a follow-up to his web series Sweet Home Ketteringa next week, as producers Turtle Canyon Comedy unveil a new slate of online shorts.
'You can't have a sitcom in space. There's no settee.'
13/05/2016 … • 'In comedy everybody feels like an outsider, that's why they've come into it.
Thu 12 May 2016
Missing Hancocks to return
BBC re-recording five more lost episodes
12/05/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of The Missing Hancocks, despite star Kevin McNally sparking rumours that it had been cancelled.
Still Game to return
Back on BBC One after nine-year absence
12/05/2016 … Still Game is to return to TV, almost nine years after its last series, and promoted to BBC One.
Tommy Cooper honoured
12/05/2016 … Tommy Cooper will today be honoured with a blue plaque at the West London family home where he lived for almost 30 years.
Nice shorts!
Comedians' films vie for award
12/05/2016 … Short films featuring Nick Helm, Lolly Adefope and Spencer Jones are all up for a respected TV industry award.
Revealed: Unseen footage from Ealing comedies
Richard E Grant to host Gold documentary
12/05/2016 … Richard E Grant is to take a look at the Ealing comedies in a new documentary for the Gold channel.
Seann Walsh gets away from it all...
12/05/2016 … Seann Walsh is to play some of the most remote venues in Scotland as part of his next tour.
Tue 10 May 2016
Alan Carr to write another book
New memoirs about his 'fame years'
10/05/2016 … Alan Carr is writing a second volume of his autobiography.
Mon 09 May 2016
© BBC Double Bafta win for Peter Kay
...as Tim Minchin gets a Logie
09/05/2016 … Peter Kay’s Car Share was a double winner at last night’s Bafta awards.
Jack Dee's HelpDesk to return
Three episodes for EU referendum
09/05/2016 … BBC Two has commissioned three new episodes of Jack Dee's HelpDesk to air in the weeks leading up to the EU referendum.
Frankie Boyle to host Have I Got News For You
09/05/2016 … Frankie Boyle will host Have I Got News For You this Friday, it has been announced.
RIP to a sitcom 'perfectionist'
BBC's former head of comedy dies
09/05/2016 … The BBC’s former head of comedy, Gareth Gwenlan, has died at the age of 79.
© C4 C4 orders Ballot Monkeys sequel
Focussing on EU referendum and Donald Trump
09/05/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned the team behind ultra-topical 2015 election comedy Ballot Monkeys to make a new series.
From Downton to demons
'Abbey' star fronts E4's new comedy-horror
09/05/2016 … Cara Theobold is to go from Downton Abbey to hunting demons in a new E4 comedy-horror series The actor, who played kitchen maid Ivy Stuart in ITV’s hit…
Eddie the Eagle joins comedy festival
09/05/2016 … EDDIE 'The Eagle' Edwards has joined the line-up of the first Just For Laughs comedy festival to be held in London.
Sun 08 May 2016
Sat 07 May 2016
Jurassic Park!
The Alan Partridge Podcast and more comedy on demand
07/05/2016 … The best comedy on demand.
Fri 06 May 2016
End of the road for Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
BBC says 'no more' to acclaimed stand-up show
06/05/2016 … The BBC will not be renewing Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
Jack Dee and Harry Hill to star in online comedy
With Romesh Ranganathan and Michelle Collins
06/05/2016 … Jack Dee, Harry Hill, Romesh Ranganathan and former EastEnders actor Michelle Collins are set to star in a new sitcom described as 'The Vicar of Dibley meets The…
Richard Herring joins 'extreme art' festival
The avant garde world goes snooker loopy
06/05/2016 … Richard Herring's obscure Me1 Vs Me2 Snooker podcast is to be showcased in a festival of extreme avant garde art.
© BBC ...And that was just the teacher!
06/05/2016 … • Should we judge a comedian by their audience? If so Adil Ray's in trouble.
Thu 05 May 2016
© BBC Bafta gives Galton & Simpson its highest honour
Fellowship for sitcom's trailblazers
05/05/2016 … 'Trailblazing' comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson will be honoured with a Bafta Fellowship at the awards on Sunday.
Kerrang!'s comedy favourites
05/05/2016 … AN ECLECTIC shortlist of comics has been drawn up for the Best Comedian award handed out by Kerrang! rock magazine.
Wed 04 May 2016
Just For Laughs comes to London
Montreal festival brings Jim Jefferies, Piff and more
04/05/2016 … Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy festival is launching a fortnight-long event in London featuring Jim Jefferies, Gina Yashere, Piff The Magic Dragon and more.
© Andy Hollingworth Bill Bailey writes safari sitcom
04/05/2016 … Bill Bailey is writing a sitcom set in a safari park.
Is monogamy dead?
Rosie Wilby signs her first book deal to find the answer
04/05/2016 … Comedian Rosie Wilby has signed a deal to write her first book, entitled Is Monogamy Dead?Combining memoir and sociology, it is described as a 'mix of humour, heartache…
Katy Brand joins Sharon Horgan's company
As comedy development consultant
04/05/2016 … Katy Brand has moved into TV production, joining Sharon Horgan’s production company Merman as a comedy development consultant.
US deal for Tom Basden comedy
As Tim Key named as one of its stars
04/05/2016 … A new backpacking comedy-drama written by Tom Basden and starring Tim Key is to be screened in the US.
Tue 03 May 2016
Jack Dee to play a hired killer
03/05/2016 … Jack Dee is to play a hired killer.
© BBC/Colin Hutton Ben Elton takes a pop at Ricky Gervais
In his new Shakespeare sitcom Upstart Crow
03/05/2016 … Ben Elton has used his new Shakespearean sitcom to take a swipe Ricky Gervais.
© BBC Work starts on Car Share series 2
Peter Kay spotted filming in Salford
03/05/2016 … Filming has begun on the second series of Peter Kay's Car Share.
Josie Long takes on Bear Grylls challenge
03/05/2016 … Josie Long is to put her survival skills to the test in a TV show with Bear Grylls.
Radio 2 commissions Barbara Nice sitcom
Four new episodes follow hit pilot
03/05/2016 … Comedy creation Barbara Nice is to star in her own Radio 2 sitcom.
'Unknown' comic outsells Jerry Seinfeld
James Mullinger fills an arena
03/05/2016 … An unknown British comedian, who admits the London comedy circuit 'ate me alive', has filled an arena gig in Canada.
David Cross announces UK dates
03/05/2016 … DAVID CROSS has announced a short run of British and Irish dates.
Blues Brothers to return... as cartoons?
Animated TV series in the works
03/05/2016 … The Blues Brothers are set to be reborn – as animated characters.
Sun 01 May 2016
Sat 30 April 2016
‘Wait a minute white supremacy...'
30/04/2016 … Better late than never, here's this week's round-up…• The sad news about Hi-Di-Hi's Barry Howard dying this week was relayed by his agent Sharry Clark.
Fri 29 April 2016
© C4 Mitchell & Webb's new comedy set in a pub
Peep Show pair to play brothers
29/04/2016 … David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s new comedy Back will be set around a pub, it has been revealed.
© Eva Rinaldi Alzheimer's 'is no subject for comedy'
Ronald Reagan's family slam Will Ferrell film
29/04/2016 … Ronald Reagan's children have blasted Will Ferrell over his plans to make a comedy about their father succumbing to Alzheimer's disease.
QI's No Such Thing As A Fish hits TV
New topical show, post-Newsnight
29/04/2016 … The QI researchers behind the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast are to launch their own topical BBC TV show.
© BBC/Hat Trick/Ellis O’Brien Frank Skinner: Drink made me hallucinate spiders
Comic discusses addiction with Frankie Boyle
29/04/2016 … Frank Skinner has spoken about his years as an alcoholic – confessing that he used to hallucinate spiders and suffer temporary blindness from drinking too much.
Channel 5 returns to panel shows
Eamonn Holmes to front It’s Not Me, It’s You
29/04/2016 … Channel 5 is to make its first comedy panel show in seven years.
© Eva Rinaldi Will Ferrell quits Reagan film
Actor bows to pressure over Alzheimer's jokes
29/04/2016 … Will Ferrell has bowed to pressure and pulled out of the comedy about Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease.
Thu 28 April 2016
© Andy Hollingworth Romesh Ranganathan to write his memoirs
28/04/2016 … Romesh Ranganathan is to write his memoirs.
Courtney Cox works on ITV sitcom
28/04/2016 … Courteney Cox is reportedly developing a new sitcom for ITV.
© BBC BBC comedy chief steps down
Mark Freeland quits over creative freedoms
28/04/2016 … The BBC’s most senior comedy production executive has dramatically announced that he is to quit the corporation.
The Nerds will be heard
Comedy science trio start work on R4 series
28/04/2016 … The Festival Of The Spoken Nerd trio have started work on a new comedy science show for Radio 4.
Final waltz for Hi-Di-Hi's Barry
Actor succumbs to cancer at 78
28/04/2016 … Barry Howard, who was best known for playing Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in Hi-de-Hi!, has died at the age of 78.
Wed 27 April 2016
© BBC/Tiger Aspect Catherine Tate to tour this autumn
27/04/2016 … Catherine Tate is tour her comedy characters for the first time this autumn.
Bafta to honour Lenny Henry
Comic will be given special award
27/04/2016 … Lenny Henry is to be awarded a special Bafta award next month for his outstanding creative contribution to television.
© C4/Ed Miller Work starts on Catastrophe series 3
27/04/2016 … Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan have revealed that they have started work on a possible third series of Catastrophe.
© ABC Pilots for Aussie comedy stars
The ABC will run with one of them...
27/04/2016 … Some of the best-known faces on Australia's comedy circuit have made pilots for the ABC – at least one of which will be picked up fro a full series.
© CBS James Corden hits 1billion YouTube views
Thanks largely to Carpool Karaoke
27/04/2016 … James Corden has racked up more than a billion views on YouTube for his US talk show.
© UKTV Gold Who's in series 3 of Taskmaster
27/04/2016 … The line-up for the third series of Taskmaster has been revealed.
BBC appoints a new comedy commissioner
Alex Moody will be a 'diversity champion'
27/04/2016 … Comedy producer Alex Moody, whose credits range from the British Comedy Awards to Nick Helm’s Bafta-nominated short film Elephant, has joined the BBC as a…
Comic under fire for 'retard' jokes
'Callous and gratuitous verbal violence'
27/04/2016 … The organisers of the Special Olympics have launched a campaign against comedian Gary Owen for using the word ‘retarded’ on stage.
Tue 26 April 2016
© Idil Sukan Nish Kumar pilots topical Radio 4 show
26/04/2016 … Nish Kumar is piloting a new topical show for Radio 4.
They think this comeback's all over...
Nick Hancock gig pulled over poor ticket sales
26/04/2016 … He was once a regular face on prime-time BBC One, seen by up to 12 million viewers a week as host of They Think It’s All Over.
© BBC Scotland Scot Squad apprehends two Scottish Comedy Awards
...as does stand-up Keir McAllistair
26/04/2016 … Scot Squad and stand-up Keir McAllister have both scooped two Scottish Comedy Awards.
Mon 25 April 2016
© Hungry McBear / BBC Second series for Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Comic is a ratings hit for BBC One
25/04/2016 … The BBC has confirmed that Michael McIntyre’s Big Show will be returning for a second series.
Michaela Coel is Bafta's breakthrough talent
And Catastrophe wins writing award
25/04/2016 … Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan have won a Bafta award for writing Catastophe.
Who's making cameos in the Ab Fab movie?
25/04/2016 … New images have been released showing some of the stars cameoing in the Absolutely Fabulous movie.
Sun 24 April 2016
Baron Cohen makes the rich list
24/04/2016 … Sacha Baron Cohen has joined the Sunday Times Rich List.
Sat 23 April 2016
Fri 22 April 2016
© BBC Getting On duo create squatters' comedy
Sitcom in development in the US
22/04/2016 … Getting On creators Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan are developing a new show for America’s IFC network.
© BBC Kelvin McKenzie slates Victoria Wood
Columnist rapped as 'an awful excuse for a human being'
22/04/2016 … Sun columnist Kelvin McKenzie has prompted a storm of outrage after writing that he 'never found Victoria Wood remotely funny'.
Doug Anthony All Stars return to Edinburgh
22/04/2016 … The Doug Anthony Allstars are to return to Edinburgh after an absence of more than 20 years.
James Acaster to host BBC Three talk show
Probing his guests' musical tastes
22/04/2016 … James Acaster is to host a music series for BBC Three.
Poking the Queen
22/04/2016 … • 'Offence is the collateral damage of freedom of speech' Ricky Gervais.
India's comedy king comes to the UK
Kapil Sharma announces Wembley Arena date
22/04/2016 … Indian comedy megastar Kapil Sharma is to make his UK debut at Wembley Arena.
Thu 21 April 2016
Mitchell and Webb shoot new comedy Back
21/04/2016 … Filming has begun on David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s new sitcom pilot.
New Edinburgh Fringe shows go on sale today
Including Paul Foot, Sam Simmons and Mr Swallow
21/04/2016 … Paul Foot, Mr Swallow, and reigning Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Sam Simmons are among the acts returning to the Fringe this year, it has been announced today.
© BBC Broadcasters clear schedules for Victoria Wood
21/04/2016 … Broadcasters have cleared some of their schedules to honour to Victoria Wood.
Wed 20 April 2016
Victoria Wood dies at 62
20/04/2016 … Victoria Wood has died at the age of 62, after being diagnosed with cancer, her publicist has said.
© C4 Drop The Dead Donkey's 'Henry Davenport' dies
20/04/2016 … David Swift, the actor who played Henry Davenport in the Drop the Dead Donkey, has died days before his 86th birthday.
BBC adapts 'astoundingly filthy' Fleabag for TV
With Olivia Colman and Hugh Dennis
20/04/2016 … Olivia Colman and Hugh Dennis are to star in a sexually explicit feminist comedy-drama for BBC Three.
Tracy Morgan pulls gig over gay rights
Comic boycotts Mississippi over new law
20/04/2016 … Tracy Morgan has pulled a gig in Mississippi in protest against the state legalising discrimination against gay people.
Limmy to play Edinburgh Fringe
20/04/2016 … LIMMY is to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
What Lucy did next
Sky's ex-comedy boss lands US deal for her new company
20/04/2016 … Former BBC and Sky comedy chief Lucy Lumsden has launched her own independent TV company, Yellow Door Productions, which already has a ‘first look’ deal with…
Paddy McGuinness to host car show
20/04/2016 … Paddy McGuinness is to present a new car-based show for The Travel Channel In Drive Of My Life, the Take Me Out comic will drive celebrities to places that mean…
Dawn French to star in Sky 1 drama
Sex, food and secrets in Delicious
20/04/2016 … Dawn French is to star in a four-part Sky 1 drama set in rural Cornwall.
© BBC 'A heartbreaking day for comedy'
Stars pay tribute to Victoria Wood
20/04/2016 … Cant believe Vic has gone.
Tue 19 April 2016
Hans Teeuwen: President Erdogan was a ‘boywhore'
Dutch comic wades in on free speech row
19/04/2016 … Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen has claimed Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be a 'boywhore' in Istanbul brothel.
© BBC / Alan Peebles Two Doors Down gets a second series
BBC Two will return to Latimer Crescent
19/04/2016 … BBC Two has commissioned a second series of its comedy series Two Doors Down, midway through the first run.
Gary: Tank Commander Political Interviewer
19/04/2016 … Gary: Tank Commander is returning to television … as a political interviewer.
BBC launches school comedy competition
19/04/2016 … The BBC has launched a new comedy writing competition aimed at secondary school students, fronted by David Walliams.
Everybody loved Doris Roberts...
Tributes as sitcom star dies at 90
19/04/2016 … Everybody Loves Raymond star Doris Roberts has died at the age of 90.
RTE orders 'post-Celtic Tiger cubs' comedy
Shooting starts on Can't Cope Won't Cope
19/04/2016 … Filming has started on a new Irish comedy series about two young women getting to grips with life in the big city.
Mon 18 April 2016
Marley's Ghosts resurrected
Gold orders second series of supernatural sitcom
18/04/2016 … TV channel Gold has ordered a second series of Marley's Ghosts, its supernatural sitcom starring John Hannah and Sarah Alexander.
Alan Carr to host C4 game show
Make Or Break pilot recorded next month
18/04/2016 … Alan Carr is set to host a new comedy game show for Channel 4.
Comedians talk mental health
Watch videos in new Mind and Comedy Central campaign
18/04/2016 … Ten comics have recorded stand-up sets about mental health issues to be broadcast on Comedy Central.
Sun 17 April 2016
Together at last: Alan Carr & Stewart Lee
17/04/2016 … Sunday April 17LIVE IN CROYDON: The stars come out to the Fairfield Hall tonight, for a top-notch fundraiser for local Croydon charities.
© BBC Believe it! Victor Meldrew's back
Richard Wilson returns for Fringe run
17/04/2016 … Richard Wilson is to revive Victor Meldrew for a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Coogan reveals his next film script
'It'll be serious, with some laughs'
17/04/2016 … Steve Coogan has revealed details of his next screenplay.
They've peaked!
Comics conquer Everest for world's highest gig
17/04/2016 … A new record has been set for the highest terrestrial stand-up gig, following a show at Everest Base Camp.
Sat 16 April 2016
Merkel greenlights probe into insult comic
Chancellor 'values Turkish deal over free speech'
16/04/2016 … German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been slammed by free speech campaigners after allowing a case to proceed against a comedian who insulted the Turkish president Tayyip…
Zoe Coombs Marr scoops Barry Award
16/04/2016 … Zoe Coombs Marr has won this year's Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Fri 15 April 2016
Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor to write his memoir
'Awkward, inspiring, dark and funny'
15/04/2016 … Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor is writing his memoirs.
Spoof reporter Jonathan Pie to tour
Live shows debut at Edinburgh Fringe
15/04/2016 … Spoof news reporter Jonathan Pie is to launch his own stand-up tour.
© World Economic Forum / Creative Commons Bono: Send comedians to fight ISIS
15/04/2016 … • 'I won’t adapt an art form to a bunch of idiots with their phones' US comedian Jen Kirkman• Bono has told American politicians they should send comedians…
UK dates for Todd Barry
15/04/2016 … AMERICAN Comic Todd Barry is coming to the UK.
© ITV Lady Colin turns to stand-up
Making her debut at Edinburgh Fringe
15/04/2016 … Lady Colin Campbell is to turn her hand to stand-up comedy, starting with a stint at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Dave has left Leicester
Broadcaster ends its festival sponsorship
15/04/2016 … TV channel Dave has ended its sponsorship of the Leicester Comedy Festival after five years.
Thu 14 April 2016
New sitcom from Plebs star Ryan Sampson
14/04/2016 … Plebs star Ryan Sampson has shot a comedy pilot for ITV2.
MP blasts 'Islamophobic' Citizen Khan
'They'll be cutting people's hands off next'
14/04/2016 … Citizen Khan has been accused of being 'Islamophobic' during a Commons debate.
Wed 13 April 2016
Glenn Wool goes 'pay what you want' at the Fringe
Full line-up of Heroes venues revealed
13/04/2016 … Glenn Wool is joining the 'pay what you want' movement at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Brett Goldstein cast in HBO sitcom
13/04/2016 … Brett Goldstein has been cast in a US comedy pilot.
Alun Cochrane joins Coronation Street
As a ‘fairly ordinary, friendly' bloke
13/04/2016 … Alun Cochrane is to appear in an episode of Coronation Street.
Tue 12 April 2016
Jim Gaffigan and Miranda Sings to play UK
12/04/2016 … American comedians Jim Gaffigan and Miranda Sings are to play the UK later this year.
Yve Blake wins Rebel Wilson scholarship
To work on musical about teenage fangirls
12/04/2016 … Musical comedian Yve Blake has won an Australian scholarship backed by Hollywood star Rebel Wilson to work on her dream project.
Would I Lie To You? lands a tenth series
12/04/2016 … BBC One has commissioned a tenth series of comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? Host Rob Brydon and team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack have both signed…
See Harry Enfield as Prince Charles
First picture from Channel 4 comedy The Windsors
12/04/2016 … This is the first look at Harry Enfield as Prince Charles and the rest of the cast of Channel 4's new Royal Family comedy The Windsors.
Glasgow comedy fest sells 78,000 tickets
12/04/2016 … THE GLASGOW International Comedy Festival has announced that it sold 78,177 tickets for this year's 18-day event, a slither (0.
Mon 11 April 2016
© BBC/Objective Productions/Chris Brock Meet the new Hyacinth Bucket
Kerry Howard lands starring role in prequel
11/04/2016 … Kerry Howard is to play the young Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC's Keeping Up Appearances prequel.
Richard Herring's film scoops international award
11/04/2016 … A short film starring Richard Herring in a rare acting role has scooped an award at Europe's biggest independent cinema festival.
Melbourne's Barry Award nominees unveiled
Political comedians get the vote
11/04/2016 … The nominees have been announced for this year's Barry Award – Australia's most prestigious accolade in live comedy.
Why Barry Humphries hates the Barry Award
11/04/2016 … Barry Humphries says he's embarrassed that Australia's most prestigious comedy award is named in his honour – because he hates the sound of his name.
Sun 10 April 2016
Angus Deayton revives Radio Active
For a run at the Edinburgh Fringe
10/04/2016 … Angus Deayton is to revive his career-making Radio Active show for the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sat 09 April 2016
Fri 08 April 2016
Russell Howard takes his mum on tour
....for a new US travelogue series
08/04/2016 … Russell Howard is making a US road trip show – accompanied by his mother, Ninette.
Ricky Gervais returns to stand-up
08/04/2016 … Ricky Gervais is returning to stand-up, six years after he last took to the stage.
Thu 07 April 2016
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
New tour dates for Reeves and Mortimer
Shows rescheduled after Bob's heart op
06/04/2016 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have announced a new batch of shows in their Poignant Moment tour.
Green Wing doctors join strike
'This is crazy,' says Stephen Mangan
06/04/2016 … Five of the stars of Green Wing have joined striking junior doctors at the hospital where the cult comedy was filmed.
Kilkenny gets its first Russian comic
...and Bristol festival line-up revealed too
06/04/2016 … Kilkenny's Cat Laughs comedy festival is to feature its first Russian comic.
Comedy Central appoints new development boss
06/04/2016 … Matt Tiller, a TV producer and sometime stand-up, has been appointed head of development for Comedy Central, starting today.
Who's on Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
06/04/2016 … The line-up of guest comics for the second series of Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central has been announced.
Ardal O'Hanlon pilots ITV sitcom
The Berries co-stars Sarah Hadland
06/04/2016 … Ardal O'Hanlon has shot a pilot for a new ITV family sitcom.
Tue 05 April 2016
© BBC Blackadder made our lives a misery
...so says, erm, Mrs Blackadder
05/04/2016 … The life of the BBC’s former chief medical officer was made a misery – thanks to Blackadder For Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis did not realise…
© BBC/Roughcut Television Cuckoo to return for two new series
News revealed as third season ends
05/04/2016 … The BBC has commissioned not one, but two more series of Cuckoo.
Jerry Seinfeld up for two Webbys
05/04/2016 … Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee has been nominated for two Webby awards.
Student award: The final 24
People's and judge's choices named
05/04/2016 … Lauren Pattison and Morgan Rees have won the People’s Choice places in the Chortle Student Comedy Award semi-finals.
Mon 04 April 2016
Showstoppers win an Olivier
04/04/2016 … Improvised musical Showstopper! has won one of the most prestigious awards in the West End.
© ITV Newzoids to return
04/04/2016 … Satirical puppet series Newzoids is returning for a second series ITV has confirmed.
Sean Bean joins E4's Wasted
(And yes, he does get to wear medieval garb)
04/04/2016 … Sean Bean is to appear in E4's new comedy series Wasted, set in the West Country.
Richard Herring's fans pledge £100k for web series
As It Occurs To Me to return, on video
04/04/2016 … Richard Herring has raised more than £100,000 from his fans to make a professional-quality comedy series for the internet.
Sun 03 April 2016
Caitlin Jenner joins Transparent
High-profile signing for Amazon series
03/04/2016 … Caitlyn Jenner is joining the cast of comedy series Transparent.
Sat 02 April 2016
New film asks: Can we take a joke?
02/04/2016 … A documentary about offence in comedy is to hit US cinemas later this year.
Did Comedy Central rip off this sketch?
02/04/2016 … America's Comedy Central has been accused of ripping of a sketch that originally aired on New Zealand TV.
Fri 01 April 2016
Protestors 'sabotage' comedy show
They snap up all the tickets – then fail to show up
01/04/2016 … A comedy gig about free speech has been sabotaged – by protestors angry at stand-up Kate Smurthwaite's views.
Barry Humprhies on growing old
01/04/2016 … Barry Humphries is to front a three-part Channel 4 show about ageing.
Ruth Jones becomes a novelist
First books sold after fierce bidding war
01/04/2016 … Ruth Jones is to release two novels, after a fierce bidding war between publishers.
Brawl breaks out over comic's risqué jokes
‘It was mayhem. There were fists everywhere'
01/04/2016 … A brawl broke out in a comedy club when a heckler challenged comic Roger Monkhouse for telling risque jokes.
© Mark Johnson / Channel4 'The same thing happened with Eamonn Holmes...'
01/04/2016 … • ‘It upsets me if I meet someone before a show wearing jeans and a jersey who goes on stage in the same clothes.
Thu 31 March 2016
...And it's goodnight from him
31/03/2016 … Tributes have been paid to Ronnie Corbett, who has died at 85.
Jack & Dean & Jessica
Hynes to join internet duo on new comedy series
31/03/2016 … Jessica Hynes is to star in a new comedy show with viral stars Jack and Dean.
Frank Skinner to host new arts quiz
31/03/2016 … Frank Skinner is set to host a panel show about the arts for the BBC.
Tracey Ullman becomes HIGNFY's 100th guest host
Other presenters and panellists revealed
31/03/2016 … Tracey Ullman is to become the 100th guest host of Have I Got News For You, the BBC has announced.
Alan Partridge goes up North
31/03/2016 … Alan’s Partridge is to make a one-hour 'state of the nation' mockumentary for Sky Atlantic.
Who's in the Porridge remake?
31/03/2016 … The full cast has been announced for the reboot of Porridge, including Catastrophe's Mark Bonnar as a wily Scottish prison guard.
Now it's Kevin Hart, the video game
...and he launches a Netflix rival
31/03/2016 … Kevin Hart is launching a new comedy streaming service as well as a video game in which players simulate the life of a stand-up star.
Wed 30 March 2016
© BBC/Rumpus Media/Benjamin Green Romesh Ranganathan up for a Bafta
30/03/2016 … Romesh Ranganathan has been nominated for a Bafta.
© C4/Aimee Spinks Drifters float back to E4
30/03/2016 … Drifters is to return for a fourth series, creator Jessica Knappett has revealed.
Tue 29 March 2016
Student award: The final vote
Which of these 12 will make it through?
29/03/2016 … Here's your chance to choose two young comedians to go through to the semi-finals of Chortle's Student Comedy Award.
Simon Day to play Alf Garnett
Casting announced for BBC sitcom reboots
29/03/2016 … Casting has been announced for BBC's sitcom reboots, with Simon Day playing Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part.
C4 loses Black Mirror to Netflix
29/03/2016 … The next series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror will premiere on Netflix in the UK, after Channel 4 lost the rights.
Mon 28 March 2016
Podcast hits legal trouble over the letter 'S'
Comedy duo threatened by Serial producers
28/03/2016 … Two comedy writers have been threatened with legal action from the producers of hit podcast Serial – in a dispute over the trademark on the letter 'S'.
Kevin Bishop to star in Porridge remake
Comic actor breaks the news on Instagram
28/03/2016 … Kevin Bishop is to star in the remake of Porridge.
Sun 27 March 2016
Silenced by a bad review
The best of the comedy week ahead
27/03/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead.
Sat 26 March 2016
© BBC/Adam Lawrence Thu 24 March 2016
Garry Shandling dies at 66
Tributes to 'beautifully unpredictable' Larry Sanders star
24/03/2016 … Garry Shandling, inventive star of The Larry Sanders Show, has died at the age of 66.
Surprise! Not Going Out is coming back
Lee Mack has scripts for series 8
24/03/2016 … Not Going Out appears to be coming back for a surprise new series.
Watts on at Latitude
Reggie joins Russell Howard as line-up confirmed
24/03/2016 … Reggie Watts is returning to the UK for an appearance at this year's Latitude festival, sharing the bill with headliner Russell Howard.
Did Jimmy Carr steal a Frankie Boyle gag?
24/03/2016 … Frankie Boyle has accused Jimmy Carr of stealing one of his one of his gags.
Sarah Silverman joins tennis film
Battle Of The Sexes directed by Danny Boyle
24/03/2016 … Sarah Silverman has joined Steve Carell in the cast of Danny Boyle’s new tennis film.
Unseen Brian Pern episode to be released
24/03/2016 … A previously unreleased episode of Brian Pern is to see the light of day in a new DVD release.
© Steve Ullathorne John Dowie writes his memoirs
Stories from the forerunner of modern comedy
24/03/2016 … John Dowie is writing a memoir about his time laying the groundwork for alternative comedy – which he quit to indulge a passion for cycling.
Not to be confused with a paedophile
24/03/2016 … • When Russell Kane was attacked in a Stewart Lee routine, he decided to hit back with material of his own, appropriating the sardonic style of the (slightly)…
Wed 23 March 2016
BBC launches 2016 New Comedy Award
23/03/2016 … Entries have opened for this year's BBC New Comedy Award.
'Utterly shameless'
John Cleese hits out at unofficial Fawlty Towers show
23/03/2016 … John Cleese is threatening to sue the theatre company behind the Faulty Towers Dining Experience for ripping off his characters.
© C4/Ed Miller Two out of three ain't bad
RTS award victories for Catastrophe and Chewing Gum
23/03/2016 … Catastrophe was named best scripted comedy at the Royal Television Society Awards last night, with creators Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan also scooping the comedy…
Student award: Final People's Choice heat
23/03/2016 … Voting has now opened for the People's Choice award for the final leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
© Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons From Hobbit to Dirk Gently
Elijah Wood signs up for new series
23/03/2016 … Hobbit star Elijah Wood has signed up to the new TV adaptation of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
© C4 Scrotal Recall to return
23/03/2016 … Scrotal Recall has been re-commissioned for a seconds series – but on Netflix, not Channel 4.
Katt Williams punches a teenager in the face
But comes off worst in the end...
23/03/2016 … Katt Williams has been caught on camera punching a teenager in the face.
Tue 22 March 2016
Chortle Award 2016 winners named
Triple victory for Joseph Morpurgo
22/03/2016 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer were honoured with an award for outstanding contribution to comedy at the Chortle Awards tonight.
Marlon Wayans to perform in the UK
22/03/2016 … Marlon Wayans is to make his London stand-up debut.
Robert De Niro performs stand-up
He's in a New York club tonight
22/03/2016 … Robert De Niro is to perform stand-up in a New York club tonight.
Terminally ill comic lands HBO special
22/03/2016 … A young comedian with incurable cancer has been given his dream – an HBO special – thanks to Ellen DeGeneres.
Comedy writers up for Baftas
22/03/2016 … The writers of Peep Show, Hunderby, Catastrophe and Peter Kay’s Car Share have been shortlisted for a Bafta award.
I Live With Models gets a second series
22/03/2016 … Comedy Central is to make a second series of I Live With Models.
Russell Kane joins Virgin Radio
...promising 'controlled mayhem'
22/03/2016 … Russell Kane is to host a weekly show on the soon-to-be relaunched Virgin Radio.
Mon 21 March 2016
Jack Dee to star in Tony Hawks musical
With Alistair McGowan, Doon Mackichan and Ben Miller
21/03/2016 … Jack Dee, Alistair McGowan, Doon Mackichan and Ben Miller are to star in a new comedy musical about a cowboy re-enactment club.
BBC sitcom remakes are 'impertinent'
Look forwards, not back, says John Lloyd
21/03/2016 … Top comedy producer John Lloyd has criticised the BBC’s remake of classic sitcoms – saying the Corporation should be moving forward rather than reliving past…
© Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock A comedy high
New batch of stand-ups assault Everest
21/03/2016 … A whole new batch of comedians are planning to set a new record for the world’s highest stand-up gig on land, with a performance at Everest Base Camp.
Barry Cryer named a 'legend of comedy'
As Leicester fest doles out its prizes
21/03/2016 … Barry Cryer has been presented with a ‘legend of comedy’ award by the Leicester comedy festival.
Sun 20 March 2016
Lenny Henry plays Muhammad Ali
The best of the comedy week ahead
20/03/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead.
Student award: Cardiff poll opens
20/03/2016 … Voting has now opened for the People's Choice award for the Cardiff University leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
© Slapstick/Adam Johnson Dara O Briain to host TV gaming show
20/03/2016 … Dara O Briain is to host a new computer gaming show for Dave.
Eddie's done it!
Izzard completes 27th marathon in 27 days
20/03/2016 … Eddie Izzard has finished his 27th marathon in 27 days across South Africa.
Sat 19 March 2016
Another venue bans Chubby Brown
'It's discrimination,' says agent
19/03/2016 … Roy Chubby Brown has been banned from a second venue for fear his comedy is ‘inappropriate’ from a council-run venue.
Fri 18 March 2016
Joe Lycett writes his first book
Social crusader with time on his hands....
18/03/2016 … Joe Lycett is to publish his first book – in which he tackles minor social outrages.
‘I thought it would be a man'
18/03/2016 … • Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus took part in such ‘an absolute car crash’ of an interview on BBC One Northern Ireland’s Nolan Live last night that they…
Thu 17 March 2016
© BBC/So Television/Christopher Baines Graham Norton writes his first novel
17/03/2016 … Graham Norton has written his first novel.
The Bill O'Reilly comedy show comes to London
17/03/2016 … American comedian Dennis Miller is heading to the UK - to share a bill with right-wing commentator Bill O'Reilly.
Jongleurs returns to Glasgow
Chain back five months after venue closure
17/03/2016 … Jongleurs comedy club is returning to Glasgow.
New book from Miranda Hart
Peggy And Me finished... two years after robbery
17/03/2016 … Miranda Hart has finally completed her new book – three years after she lost the draft for the original when her laptop was stolen.
© BBC/Lucky Giant/Todd Antony Doctor, doctor....
More details of BBC's Victorian medical comedy Quacks
17/03/2016 … The BBC has officially released details of Quacks, the comedy-drama set in the world of Victorian medicine which Chortle first reported in October last year.
24's Chloe does stand-up
One of scores of Fringe shows announced today
17/03/2016 … 24 star Mary Lynn Rajskub is to perform a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Student award: Manchester poll opens
17/03/2016 … Voting has now opened for the People's Choice award for the Manchester leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Coogan plans new Alan Partridge chat show
17/03/2016 … Steve Coogan says he's considering a new chat show for Alan Partridge - but this time with real guests.
Lenny Henry to star in a Rogue's Gallery
17/03/2016 … Lenny Henry is to act in a new series of 'darkly comic, genre-bending monologues' for Radio 4.
Wed 16 March 2016
US pilot for Stephen Fry
Starring as an explorer in The Great Indoors
16/03/2016 … Stephen Fry could follow his comedy parter Hugh Laurie to US success.
Tue 15 March 2016
© BBC Sandi: I can't bear to listen to the News Quiz
She's never heard Miles Jupp host it
15/03/2016 … Sandi Toksvig has admitted she hasn’t listened to The News Quiz since Miles Jupp took over.
Jack Dee quits The Apprentice: You're Fired
15/03/2016 … Jack Dee has quit as host of The Apprentice: You’re Fired.
Whose Line? returns to the West End
London Palladium shows this summer
15/03/2016 … Whose Line Is It Anyway? is to return to London’s West End for another run.
Mon 14 March 2016
Alexei Sayle to star in boxing film
With Ricky Tomlinson and Denise Van Outen
14/03/2016 … Alexei Sayle is to star in a bare-knuckle boxing film.
Student Comedy Award: Southampton vote opens
14/03/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Southampton leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Sharon Horgan to reunite with Pulling co-creator
Working again with Matilda co-writer Dennis Kelly
14/03/2016 … Pulling creators Sharon Horgan and Dennis Kelly are reuniting after a decade for a new Channel 4 pilot.
Now C goes 'free'
'Pay what you want' at one Fringe venue
14/03/2016 … Edinburgh’s C Venues are the latest to join the ‘pay-what-you-want’ bandwagon at the Fringe.
Sun 13 March 2016
© BBC/Comedy Unit What the Burniston boys did next
The best of the comedy week ahead
13/03/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead.
Sat 12 March 2016
Fri 11 March 2016
Rhod Gilbert working on Llanbobl sitcom
'Slightly surreal, slightly dark' comedy in the works
11/03/2016 … Rhod Gilbert is working on a sitcom based in his fictional Welsh hometown.
© UKTV Gold Revealed: Who's in series 2 of Taskmaster
Comics try to impress Greg Davies
11/03/2016 … The contestants have been announced for the second series of Taskmaster.
Critics' choices
Press awards for Lloyd, Finnemore and Catastrophe
11/03/2016 … John Finnemore, John Lloyd and Catastrophe have been honoured at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
BBC renews Insert Name Here
Second series for Perkins, Osman and Widdicombe
11/03/2016 … BBC Two has ordered a second series of its comedy panel show Insert Name Here.
A sick comedian
11/03/2016 … • ‘I'm not like Russell Brand, out in the audience with a cordless mic, foraging for vagina.
Thu 10 March 2016
© Steve Ullathorne John Dowie's back
Alternative comedy pioneer's first gig in 14 years
10/03/2016 … Alternative comedy pioneer John Dowie is to perform his first live show in 14 years.
Adam Buxton joins Diet Of Worms
10/03/2016 … Irish sketch group Diet of Worms are returning to the BBC with a Radio 4 pilot.
Vimeo launches comedy shows
10/03/2016 … Video website Vimeo has announced a new range of comedy commissions, including a new show starring comedy duo Jake & Amir and a special from musical comics Garfunkel…
BBC announces new pilots
Shows from Johnny Vegas, Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan
10/03/2016 … BBC Two is to showcase five new comedy pilots this summer, including comedies from Johnny Vegas and Graham Linehan and Sharon Horgan.
'Reimagining hits of the past'
Revealed: Full details of BBC's landmark sitcom season
10/03/2016 … The BBC has announced further details of its landmark comedy season for this summer, with confirmation of a Keeping Up Appearances prequel.
Chubby Brown: I'm cleaner than Jimmy Carr
Comic hits back after council ban
10/03/2016 … Roy Chubby Brown has claimed he's 'the Archbishop of Canterbury' compared to Jimmy Carr, after a local council forced him to cancel a gig.
Student award: Warwick poll opens
10/03/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Warwick leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Wed 09 March 2016
© From The Last Impresario Python and Comic Strip producer dies
'One of a kind' Michael White was 80
09/03/2016 … Michael White, who produced The Rocky Horror Picture Show film and Monty Python and the Holy Grail has died at the age of 80.
Missing Hancocks may not be axed
As episodes reshot for TV, with Steptoe and TiIl Death...
09/03/2016 … The Missing Hancocks could be set to return to Radio 4, after appearing to be axed.
Now David Brent releases a songbook
09/03/2016 … Ricky Gervais is to publish a David Brent Songbook to coincide with the summer release of his film Life On The Road.
Jo's Brand new show
Going Forward with a follow-up to Getting On
09/03/2016 … BBC Four has commissioned Jo Brand to make a follow-up to her hospital sitcom Getting On.
Apocalypse No
Doomsday for Sky's end-of-world comedy
09/03/2016 … Sky's star-studded comedy-drama You, Me And The Apocalypse – which dealt with the countdown to a meteor strike on Earth – has not been renewed…
Comic Strip founder gets order of the Bath
Peter Richardson honoured by city's comedy festival
09/03/2016 … Comic Strip founder Peter Richardson is to be honoured with the a comedy achievement award by the Bath Comedy Festival.
Tue 08 March 2016
AP on LP
Alan Partridge releases his first vinyl record
08/03/2016 … Alan Partridge is to release his first vinyl record.
Sorry UK, I'm off to Vegas!
Paul Zerdin drops British dates to live his dream
08/03/2016 … Paul Zerdin has cancelled his autumn tour of the UK – after landing a Las Vegas residency.
Back in the beret again
First pictures of new Frank Spencer sketch
08/03/2016 … These are the first pictures of Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice as Frank Spencer and his wife Betty in almost 40 years.
BBC Studios announces new comedy chief
Chris Sussman moves from commissioning
08/03/2016 … The BBC has announced that Chris Sussman will be its new head of comedy production.
Mon 07 March 2016
Adios, Adelaide
Comics to boycott 'terrible' festival with 'rude' audiences
07/03/2016 … International comedians say they are to boycott the world’s second largest fringe festival in the face of poor ticket sales, badly behaved audiences…
Student award: Bristol poll opens
07/03/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Bristol leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Ant and Dec 'ripped off' Cannon and Ball
Wall sketch seemed familiar...
07/03/2016 … Ant and Dec have been accused of ripping off an old Cannon and Ball routine on Saturday Night Takeaway.
Hal and high water
Comic Cruttenden embarks on round-Britain challenge
07/03/2016 … Hal Cruttenden has joined a team of five other celebrities to embark on a gruelling sailing trip around the UK.
A new home for Holmes
07/03/2016 … NOW SHOW regular Jon Holmes is to be the afternoon DJ on the soon-to-be-launched Talk Radio.
Sun 06 March 2016
Ill Jenny Eclair pulls gigs
Chest infection leaves her gasping for breath
06/03/2016 … Jenny Eclair has cancelled two tour shows after coming down with a chest infection.
Happy Birthday, Bonzos!
The best of the comedy week ahead
06/03/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead.
Sat 05 March 2016
© BBC Tracey Ullman Show to return
05/03/2016 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Tracey Ullman’s Show.
Fri 04 March 2016
Liverpool comic Mickey Finn dies at 69
04/03/2016 … Liverpool comic Mickey Finn has died at the age of 69.
Novak plugs controversial bookmaker
Fonejacker star mocks complaints in new ads
04/03/2016 … Fonejacker star Kayvan Novak has signed up to advertise much-criticised betting firm Paddy Power.
'I rolled around with Prince Harry'
04/03/2016 … • 'Bill Cosby, in spite of whatever he did off stage, was funny without being vulgar.
Student award: Brighton poll opens
04/03/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People’s Choice award for the Brighton leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Thu 03 March 2016
© BBC Liam Williams unveils new play
Travesty to premiere at Latitude
03/03/2016 … Liam Williams is to unveil his debut play at the Latitude Festival.
Coel and Catastrophe lead RTS awards
Nods for Helm, Hills and Whitehall too...
03/03/2016 … Michaela Coel, creator and star of E4's Chewing Gum, has been nominated for three Royal Television Society Awards.
Tyne to shine
Fourth series for NE comedy showcase Jesting About
03/03/2016 … BBC Newcastle has renewed its programme showcasing North-East comedy talent, Jesting About.
Will Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle get a fifth series?
03/03/2016 … Stewart Lee has suggested the future of his BBC Two show could be at risk from management changes at the Corporation.
Felicity Montagu goes on a Guilt Trip
...with her real-life daughter
03/03/2016 … Alan Partridge star Felicity Montagu is to star in a new sitcom with her real-life daughter Olivia Nixon.
© BBC Celt favourites
03/03/2016 … Mrs Brown's Boys, the Absolutely sketch team and stand-up Bennett Arron have all been nominated for awards at the Celtic Media Festival.
Wed 02 March 2016
Channel 4 signs prankster Brodkin
VW stunt was for a new online series
02/03/2016 … Simon Brodkin's stunt at a VW car launch was for a new Channel 4 prank show, it can be revealed.
Comedian dupes BBC News
Darius Davies pretends to have been on stag do flight
02/03/2016 … Comedian Darius Davies has duped BBC News into letting him on air – where he made up a story about a rowdy airline passenger twirling his penis around.
Farewell, Father Jack
Irish president joins mourners for comedy star
02/03/2016 … Irish president Michael D Higgins was among the mourners who turned out for the funeral of Father Ted actor Frank Kelly in Dublin today.
Tue 01 March 2016
ITV2 to launch 'the new 11 O'Clock Show'
Topical showcase for upcoming comics
01/03/2016 … ITV2 is launching a new version of The 11 O'Clock Show, featuring Dane Baptiste, Lolly Adefope, Bobby Mair, Natasia Demetriou and Rhys James.
John Bishop to host his own chat show
01/03/2016 … John Bishop is to host his own chat show.
Oh, Mr Rigsby!
ITV3 dedicates Easter weekend to Rising Damp
01/03/2016 … ITV3 is to dedicate its entire Easter weekend to Rising Damp.
Simon Brodkin invades VW presentation
01/03/2016 … <p> Simon Brodkin has struck again – pranking a Volkswagen executive over the comapany's emissions scandal.
Student comedy award: Oxford votes are open
01/03/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Oxford leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Mon 29 February 2016
Raised by Wolves could get US remake
29/02/2016 … It may seem firmly rooted in the residential streets of Wolverhampton – but Raised By Wolves could be heading for an American remake.
Tim Minchin joins BBC's Shakespeare bash
As do Al Murray, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar
29/02/2016 … Tim Minchin, Al Murray, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar are joining the BBC’s celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
Police storm Chris Ramsey's hotel room
Comic handcuffed as he's mistaken for knifeman
29/02/2016 … Comedian Chris Ramsey was shocked when armed police stormed his hotel room in the early hours of this morning and slapped him in handcuffs – mistaking him for…
© Andy Hollingworth Rom to roam again
Asian Provocateur 'gets second series'
29/02/2016 … Romesh Ranganathan is to make a second travel series for the BBC, it has been reported.
Sun 28 February 2016
Izzard forced to miss a day's marathon
Medical advice after blood test
28/02/2016 … Eddie Izzard has been forced to take a day off his quest to run 27 marathons in 27 days on doctor's orders.
Student award: London People's Choice poll opens
28/02/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the London heat of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Ah feck, 'Father Jack' dies
28/02/2016 … Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack in Father Ted, has died aged 77.
Stew Lee, madly, deeply...
The pick of the comedy week ahead
28/02/2016 … The pick of the comedy week ahead.
© Jill Furmanovsky Daniel Sloss leads Scottish Comedy Award nominations
28/02/2016 … Daniel Sloss leads the nominations for this year’s Scottish Comedy Awards, being shortlisted for four gongs.
Sat 27 February 2016
Comic fights for the right to crack sick jokes
Mike Ward faces human rights tribunal
27/02/2016 … A comedian has been hauled up in front of a human rights tribunal for making a joke at someone's expense.
Fri 26 February 2016
© George Darrell / Creative Commons Jameela Jamil to star in US sitcom
Huge Hollywood break for British presenter
26/02/2016 … TV and radio presenter Jameela Jamil has landed a dream big break in the States, with a starring role in a new sitcom.
Gilded Balloon to offer 'pay what you want'
More plans for Edinburgh's Counting House revealed
26/02/2016 … The Gilded Balloon is to run a ‘pay what you want’ model for shows in the Edinburgh Fringe venue it poached from the Free Festival.
Comedy festival charges straight, white men more
26/02/2016 … •'I'm 23 per cent gay.
Steve Coogan banned from driving
Clocked at 54mph in a 30mph zone
26/02/2016 … Steve Coogan has been banned from driving after being caught speeding.
Thu 25 February 2016
Student award: Who's your Lincoln favourite?
25/02/2016 … Polls have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Lincoln heat of the Chortle Student Comedy Award.
Eddie Izzard stands for Labour's NEC
'I will stand up for ordinary people'
25/02/2016 … <p> Eddie Izzard is standing for a place on Labour’s ruling executive.
Free Edinburgh venue falls to Gilded Balloon
'Big 4' venue expands into Counting House
25/02/2016 … Edinburgh’s Counting House pub is to be part of the Gilded Balloon complex at this year's Fringe, after nine years of being a free venue.
House, plaque; plaque, house
25/02/2016 … Tommy Cooper is to be honoured with a blue plaque at his West London home.
Wed 24 February 2016
Baconface gets his own radio show
24/02/2016 … Stewart Lee's 'inspiration', Baconface, is to present his own radio show.
A show of Hans: Teeuwen returns to the UK
24/02/2016 … DUTCH comedian Hans Teeuwen is to return to the UK this autumn for his first tour in six year.
Is this the UK's most prolific joke thief?
The Tory who's ten times worse than Keith Chegwin
24/02/2016 … The former leader of young Conservatives in Wales is selling comedians’ jokes without their knowledge.
Tue 23 February 2016
Go Eddie!
Izzard begins the first of his 27 marathons
23/02/2016 … Eddie Izzard has kicked off his quest to run 27 marathons in 27 days.
Third kids' book for David O'Doherty
Puffin buys Danger Really Is Everywhere
23/02/2016 … David O’Doherty is to publish a third children’s book in his Danger is Everywhere series.
Pointless to hit its 1,000th episode
Another 210 instalments ordered
23/02/2016 … Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are to host another 210 episodes of Pointless.
Billy On The Street and Fameless coming to UK
23/02/2016 … Comedy Central has snapped up the UK rights to air impromptu quiz show Billy On The Street and prank programme Fameless from the States.
Eddie Izzard completes his first marathon
23/02/2016 … Eddie Izzard has completed the first of the 27 marathons he is running in South Africa.
Radio 4's answer to John Oliver?
Andrew Maxwell pilots in-depth satire show
23/02/2016 … Andrew Maxwell has landed a late-night, topical news pilot for Radio 4.
Colman and Barratt's dark new roles
23/02/2016 … This brooding picture has just been released by Channel 4 to tease their new dark comedy-drama Flowers, starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt.
Mon 22 February 2016
© BBC/Gary Moyes Dead Kennedys
BBC kills off Emma Kennedy's comedy
22/02/2016 … The BBC has axed The Kennedys, the comedy series based on the childhood memoirs of writer Emma Kennedy.
Benidorm's back!
22/02/2016 … ITV has commissioned a ninth series of Benidorm, which will go into production next month.
© BBC Who's in the Are You Being Served reboot?
22/02/2016 … The cast has been revealed for the revival of Are You Being Served?John Challis, best known as Boycie from Only Fools And Horses, will play department manager Captain…
Student Award: Vote for your St Andrews favourite
22/02/2016 … The polls have now opened for the second People's Choice award in the Chortle Student Comedy Award.
Four Jongleurs clubs to go
22/02/2016 … Jongleurs is to disappear from Camden, Birmingham, Reading and Watford.
Not suitable for children!
Lou Sanders rapped over 'suck me off' comment
22/02/2016 … Comedian Lou Sanders has been reprimanded by radio bosses after a saucy remark landed them in trouble with the regulators.
© BBC Radio 4 revives Nurse
Paul Whitehouse comedy back after TV sojourn
22/02/2016 … Paul Whitehouse’s Nurse is returning to Radio 4 following the axing of its TV version.
'Elis, I love you. Will you marry me?'
Isy Suttie and Elis James get engaged
22/02/2016 … Isy Suttie and Elis James are engaged to be married after she proposed at a launch party for her new book.
Sun 21 February 2016
Sick comedy...
Hospital mockumentary leads the comedy week ahead
21/02/2016 … The comedy week ahead.
Leicester loves Lucy
Tom scoops Comedian Of The Year title
21/02/2016 … Tom Lucy has won this year’s Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year title.
Smithy's back
James Corden revives Gavin & Stacey character for Sport Relief
21/02/2016 … James Corden has revived his Gavin and Stacey character ‘Smithy’ for Sport Relief.
Sat 20 February 2016
Will you love Love?
20/02/2016 … Love Judd Apatow's new comedy series, which dropped 10 episodes on Netflix last night, throws the cliches of romantic comedies out of the window.
Fri 19 February 2016
Radio 4 orders stately home sitcom
Starring Simon Callow and Miles Jupp
19/02/2016 … Simon Callow, Miles Jupp and Jane Horrocks are to star in a sitcom about the crumbling stately pile of an obscure 18th Century poet.
Geordie comedian Brendan Healy dies at 59
'A true gent and a very funny man'
19/02/2016 … Geordie comedian Brendan Healy has died at the age of 59.
Alan Carr's tour manager attacked
Row with selfie-seekers ends in hospital trp
19/02/2016 … Alan Carr’s tour manager was attacked when he tried to stop drunken fans taking selfies with the comic.
Nazi invades Tel Aviv
19/02/2016 … • 'People think that if they call me a prick, I will find it hilarious.
Thu 18 February 2016
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em... again
Frank Spencer revived after 38 years
18/02/2016 … Michael Crawford is to play Frank Spencer again – 38 years after the last Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.
Your gender or your wife!
Trans comic Jordan Raskopoulos falls foul of marriage laws
18/02/2016 … Comedian Jordan Raskopoulos has revealed she has to choose between her marriage and her gender.
Comedy playwriting contest opens
£10k prize in Liverpool Hope competition
18/02/2016 … Comedy scripts are being sought for a £10,000 playwriting prize – although writers must pay a fee to enter.
Student award: First People's Choice poll opens
Who is your favourite from Glasgow?
18/02/2016 … Voting has opened for the People's Choice award for the first heat of the 2016 Chortle Student Comedy Award.
© BBC Khan you believe it?
Citizen Khan tour adds 6 more dates
18/02/2016 … An extra six dates have been added to the Citizen Khan tour.
Wed 17 February 2016
The Simpsons go live
Motion-capture to animate Homer in real time
17/02/2016 … The Simpsons is to air a live session.
© Steve Ullathorne Paul Merton's Just A Minute milestone
17/02/2016 … Paul Merton is to overtake Kenneth Williams to become the second most frequent player of Just A Minute.
Boy Meets Girl up for LGBT award
As are David Morgan, Alan Carr & Sue Perkins
17/02/2016 … BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl and its star Rebecca Root have been shortlisted in this year's British LGBT Awards.
Alan Partridge ratings have a-halved
Just 60,000 see Mid Morning Matters
17/02/2016 … He’s one of Britain’s best known comedy creations – but Alan Partridge attracted disappointing ratings to Sky Atlantic last night.
Tue 16 February 2016
© BBC/Balloon Entertainment/Colin Hutton Harry Enfield to play Prince Charles in comedy soap
16/02/2016 … Harry Enfield is to play Prince Charles in Channel 4’s new comedy soap opera The Windsors.
Tim Minchin targets 'coward' Cardinal
Song slams priest for failing paedophile victims
16/02/2016 … Tim Minchin has released a new song, aimed at a leading Cardinal embroiled in a paedophile scandal.
From comedians to roving reporters
New roles for Funmbi Omotayo and Susan Calman
16/02/2016 … Comedians Funmbi Omotayo and Susan Calman are to become reporters for a new daily magazine show about the world of television.
Radio 4's comedy bonanza
16/02/2016 … Radio 4 has announced a raft of new comedies, including debuts for Sam Simmons, Tez Ilyas, Mae Martin and sketch trio Daphne; new shows from Alexei Sayle, Tim Vine…
Steve Coogan to marry Paul Rudd
16/02/2016 … Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are to play a bickering married couple in a new comedy-drama film called An Ideal Home.
Keeping Up Appearances is the BBC's top export
16/02/2016 … Keeping Up Appearances has outgunned the likes of Top Gear and Doctor Who to be named the BBC's most popular export.
© ITV Safeword to return
With David Morgan and Katherine Ryan
16/02/2016 … ITV2 has commissioned a second series of comedy panel show Safeword with Katherine Ryan and David Morgan returning as team captains.
Blackpool to get a Morecambe & Wise statue
16/02/2016 … A statue of Morecambe & Wise is to be unveiled in Blackpool this autumn as part of the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of their theatrical debut.
Louis CK scoops a Grammy
16/02/2016 … LOUIS CK has won this year's Grammy award for best comedy album for Live At Madison Square Garden.
Mon 15 February 2016
Coogan and Brydon take another Trip
This time around Spain for Sky Atlantic
15/02/2016 … Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are making a third series of The Trip – this time for Sky Atlantic.
The bishop of Dibley?
Dawn French hints at show's return... and a promotion
15/02/2016 … The Vicar of Dibley could be heading for for a comeback – with Geraldine Granger promoted to bishop.
I'm trans... and I'm f***ing awesome
Musical comic Jordan Raskopoulos comes out
15/02/2016 … Axis of Awesome comedian Jordan Raskopoulos has come out as transgender in a powerful and personal new video.
'Your review is a piece of shit'
Comic and critic clash at Adelaide Fringe
15/02/2016 … Veteran stand-up Lawrence Mooney has unleashed a vicious torrent abuse against a reviewer who branded him ‘just a funny guy’ rather than a comedian.
Fry quits Twitter over joke backlash
Under fire over 'joshing' with his friend
15/02/2016 … Stephen Fry has apparently quit Twitter in the wake of a joke he cracked while hosting the Bafta awards ceremony last night.
'This time I will succeed'
Eddie Izzard again attempts 27 South African marathons in 27 days
15/02/2016 … Eddie Izzard has announced that he will make a second attempt to complete 27 marathons in 27 days across South Africa.
© BBC Official: Are You Being Served? to get a reboot
New-look sitcom to film next month
15/02/2016 … Are You Being Served? is to be rebooted with an 'all-star cast'.
Meet your heroes
Bec Hill to host superhero magazine show
15/02/2016 … Bec Hill is to host a new show about the heroes of DC comics.
Sun 14 February 2016
Happy 90th birthday, Kenneth Williams
The best of the comedy week ahead
14/02/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead.
Sat 13 February 2016
The weird world of Nessie, Bigfoot... and Donald Trump
13/02/2016 … The best comedy on demand…The ParaPodIn the same week they were nominated for a Chortle Award, comics Ray Peacock and Barry Dodds return for a second series of…
Fri 12 February 2016
Vote in the 2016 Chortle Awards
Joseph Morpurgo leads the nominations
12/02/2016 … Joseph Morpurgo is the frontrunner in this year's Chortle Awards, with three individual nominations.
Best in shows
The final Chortle Award nominees
12/02/2016 … The final Chortle award shortlist been announced, with Joseph Morpurgo scooping his third nomination.
Second season for Aziz Ansari's Master Of None
Netflix renews acclaimed comedy
12/02/2016 … Netflix has renewed Aziz Ansari’s series Master of None for a second series.
Portraits of the jokers
Steve Best to release another book of comedians' photos
12/02/2016 … Comedian and photographer Steve Best is working on a follow-up to his book of portraits, Comedy Snapshot.
'I stole Paul Whitehouse's ideas'
12/02/2016 … • 'There is no art of comedy,' Harry Enfield.
Thu 11 February 2016
Johnny Vegas to appear in Neil Gaiman series
Short stories adapted for Sky Arts
11/02/2016 … Johnny Vegas is to appear in a TV adaptation of short stories by Neil Gaiman.
F*** you, Ricky Gervais
Comic TJ Miller lays into Golden Globes host
11/02/2016 … American comedian TJ Miller has savaged Ricky Gervais as 'an awful little puggish man who needs to stop yelling at Hollywood which gave him a chance'.
Meet the new head of BBC radio comedy production
11/02/2016 … The BBC has officially appointed its new chief of in-house radio comedies, Julia McKenzie.
Wed 10 February 2016
Comedian proposes on stage – and gets rejected
10/02/2016 … Excruciating footage has emerged of a stand-up proposing on stage – only to be rejected.
© Petr Novák / Creative Commons Chris Morris is developing a new movie
Satirist working with Film4 again
10/02/2016 … Chris Morris is making a new film, it has been revealed.
C5 orders improvised border guards mockumentary
Its first new comedy in a decade
10/02/2016 … Channel 5 has ordered an improvised mockumentary based around border guards.
100 comics protest baby deportations
Open letter from Australia's 'professional dickheads’
10/02/2016 … <p> A hundred of Australia’s leading comedians have issued an open letter to their government urging them not to deport 37 babies.
Matt Richardson joins Virgin Radio
10/02/2016 … Comic Matt Richardson is to be the drivetime DJ on Virgin Radio when it returns to the airwaves next month.
Mel Giedroyc to star in ‘a modern Round The Horne’
Radio 4 picks up Justin Edwards's sketch show
10/02/2016 … Mel Giedroyc is to star in a new Radio 4 sketch comedy show described as a ‘modern Round The Horne’.
© Andy Hollingworth Romesh to face Nigel Farage on Question Time
10/02/2016 … ROMESH RANGANATHAN is set to clash with Nigel Farage on Question time tomorrow night.
Steve Coogan to play the Devil
10/02/2016 … Steve Coogan is to be the voice of Satan in a new adult animation movie.
Tue 09 February 2016
The man with the golden puns
Masai Graham crowned wordplay king
09/02/2016 … Masai Graham has been crowned the 2016 UK Pun Champion.
Anita Dobson joins Gold's Rebel sitcom
With Bill Paterson, Anna Crilly and Amit Shah
09/02/2016 … Anita Dobson, Bill Paterson and Anna Crilly have all be signed up to the new sitcom based on The Oldie magazine's cartoon strip The Rebel.
Carry On writer dies at 93
Norman Hudis wrote first six movies
09/02/2016 … Norman Hudis, who wrote the first six Carry On films, has died in California at the age of 93.
Mon 08 February 2016
Glee for comedy club chain
Judges reject TV show's trademark appeal
08/02/2016 … The Glee comedy clubs have won another legal battle against the TV show that shares their name.
Who won at the comedians' boxing?
08/02/2016 … Here are the results from last nights' Comedians Boxing event, held at the Blyth Sports Centre, Northumberland.
How Peter Sellers sabotaged his own movie
Director tells the inside story of Ghost Of The Noonday Sun
08/02/2016 … The director of a Peter Sellers movie flop is making a documentary about the nightmares he endured on the shoot because of the comedian's impossible behaviour.
New series from People Time comics
08/02/2016 … The alternative sketch comedians behind the BBC Three sketch pilot People Time have launched their own online series.
Rhod Gilbert's gunpoint drama
'Intensely uncomfortable' scenario on Work Experience
08/02/2016 … Rhod Gilbert has been held at gunpoint during filming on his new TV series.
Sun 07 February 2016
Chris Addison scoops US directing award
07/02/2016 … Chris Addison has won a Directors Guild of America award for helming an episode of Veep.
Sat 06 February 2016
Fri 05 February 2016
Russian drolls
Top satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky heads to the UK
05/02/2016 … A West End theatre is to host a night of stand-up – in Russian.
© Andy Hollingworth Romesh joins Question Time panel
05/02/2016 … ROMESH RANGANATHAN is to appear as a panellist on next week's Question Time.
Heckled by yoga
05/02/2016 … • 'I don't think a lot of people are honest in their comedy, I just think that's my signature.
Thu 04 February 2016
Top Gear signs Matt LeBlanc
Friends and Episodes star to co-present with Chris Evans
04/02/2016 … Friends and Episodes star Matt LeBlanc is to be one of the new presenters of the new-look Top Gear.
Sky orders a new series of Duck Quacks...
04/02/2016 … SKY 1 has ordered a fifth series of Duck Quacks Don't Echo, in which Lee Mack and guest comedian put audience hypotheses to the test.
Wed 03 February 2016
How the Boosh turned down an American TV deal
...but Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt set to reunite
03/02/2016 … The Mighty Boosh turned down a chance to make an American TV series, Noel Fielding has revealed.
A little more conversation...
03/02/2016 … The Gold TV channel has commissioned a second series of The Interviews, its archive show featuring classic chat show clips.
Celebrity Juice to air a live episode
As Fearne Cotton returns for series 15
03/02/2016 … Celebrity Juice is to air a live episode next month.
Dara to host Robot Wars revival
With Angela Scanlon and Jonathan Pearce
03/02/2016 … Dara O Briain is to host BBC Two’s revival of Robot Wars.
Student comedy award: London heat confirmed
03/02/2016 … THE LONDON heat of the Chortle Student Comedy Award will be held at the Dogstar pub in Brixton on February 23, it can be announced today.
Tue 02 February 2016
Lewis Schaffer, eco warrior
Comedian chains himself to a tree
02/02/2016 … Comedian Lewis Schaffer has chained himself to a council digger in an attempt to save trees in a cemetery near his South London home.
Henning Wehn to make more Immigrant's Guides
Channel 4 orders three new episodes
02/02/2016 … German comedian Henning Wehn has been commissioned to make three more Immigrant's Guide To… programmes for Channel 4.
James Corden to host the Tonys
The biggest awards on Broadway
02/02/2016 … James Corden is to host this year’s Tony Awards, the biggest celebration of Broadway theatre.
© BBC Charlie Baker joins EastEnders
Comic makes his soap debut tonight
02/02/2016 … Comedian Charlie Baker is joining the cast of EastEnders tonight.
Mon 01 February 2016
Izzard revives One Word Impro
Back for a 20th anniversary gig
01/02/2016 … Eddie Izzard has announced a new West End show – with a revival of an improv format that helped make his name 20 years ago.
Cooking up a victory
Radio award for In And Out Of The Kitchen
01/02/2016 … Miles Jupp and Justin Edwards’ Radio 4 sitcom In And Out Of The Kitchen has been honoured at the BBC Audio Drama awards.
Bloomsbury Theatre to stay shut until 2018
...and Piccadilly Comedy Club loses venue, too
01/02/2016 … London’s Bloomsbury Theatre is to remain closed for at least two more years, it was revealed today.
© BBC Car Share named comedy of the year
Peep Show and Inside No 9 also claim British Comedy Guide gongs
01/02/2016 … Peter Kay’s Car Share has been named comedy of the year by the British Comedy Guide.
Netflix show for Dr Brown
Comic given carte blanche in The Characters
01/02/2016 … Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Dr Brown has made his own half-hour show for Netflix.
Sun 31 January 2016
Aired at last, the comedy dropped after terror attacks
31/01/2016 … The Radio 2 comedy pulled in the wake of the Paris terror attacks will finally be aired this week.
We lost out on Loadsamoney!
Co-creators didn't cash in on character rights
31/01/2016 … Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson lost out on sharing the fortune that Harry Enfield earned for Loadsamoney, despite co-creating the character.
The besta Leicester, and beyond...
The pick of the comedy week ahead
31/01/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead…Sunday January 31TV: Here's a chance to reappraise the underrated The Armando Iannucci Shows, now the titular creator has returned…
Bilal Zafar is 'top of the bill'
Comic crowned 2016 Naty winner
31/01/2016 … Bilal Zafar has won this year's Naty New Act Of The Year competition.
Sat 30 January 2016
The Shining just got a lot more weird...
30/01/2016 … The best comedy on demand.
Louis CK launches surprise new sitcom
30/01/2016 … Louis CK has surprised fans by releasing online the first episode of a sitcom he has been secretly developining.
Fri 29 January 2016
© Comic Relief Jo Brand completes her 'Walk Of Hell'
150-mile trek ends in Liverpool
29/01/2016 … Jo Brand has finished her 150-mile coast-to-coast walk for Sport Relief, ending up in Liverpool last night.
'I'm still contemporary!'
Bobby Davro complains he's pigeonholed as 'stuck in the 1980s'
29/01/2016 … Bobby Davro has complained that he can’t get TV slots as he’s been pigeonholed as ‘belonging the 1980s’.
Another BBC series for Patrick Kielty
Chat show based on guest's internet history
29/01/2016 … Patrick Kielty is to host a new chat show for BBC Northern Ireland.
ABC to pilot Ed Weeks's script
Written with Peep Show producer Hannah Mackay
29/01/2016 … America’s ABC network is to pilot a new comedy from Peep Show producer Hannah Mackay and British comic Ed Weeks.
Who says comedians all look the same?
29/01/2016 … •'I get quite a lot of shit.
Holly Burn joins all-female Cyrano
29/01/2016 … HOLLY BURN has been cast in an all-female stage production of Cyrano De Bergerac.
Thu 28 January 2016
First Edinburgh Fringe shows go on sale
Six months before festival starts
28/01/2016 … It’s still more than six months away, but tickets for the first Edinburgh Fringe shows have gone on sale today.
Frankie Boyle jumps to Netflix
Tour recorded for streaming giant
28/01/2016 … Frankie Boyle is to become the second British comic to release a stand-up special exclusively on Netflix.
Now ITV loses its comedy chief
28/01/2016 … ITV’s comedy chief Elaine Bedell is stepping down in the latest shuffle of senior broadcasting executives across the industry.
Dieudonne detained
Anti-semitic French comic banned from entering Hong Kong
28/01/2016 … Anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has been detained at Hong Kong airport.
Jim Jefferies to return to the UK
28/01/2016 … Jim Jefferies is returning to the UK for his first tour in four years.
Wed 27 January 2016
Luisa Omielan pilots ITV2 show
Made by Miranda Hart and David Walliams's company
27/01/2016 … Luisa Omielan is working on a new sketch show for ITV2.
Who do they think they are kidding?
27/01/2016 … The new Dad’s Army movie is ‘doomed’ to mediocrity, if the critics are to be believed.
Trevor Noah's $3million book deal
South African memoirs out in November
27/01/2016 … Trevor Noah has signed a publishing deal worth a reported $3million-plus.
Making a very good impression
Rory Bremner's benefit tour for flood victims
27/01/2016 … Impressionist Rory Bremner has announced a mini-tour in aid of the flood victims across the North of England.
Now open! Entries for the Student Comedy Award
27/01/2016 … Unfortunately entries are now closed for this year's competition.
Tue 26 January 2016
Brendan O'Carroll donates £25k to tragic family
Spontaneous donation from Mrs Brown star
26/01/2016 … Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll has donated almost £25,000 to a young family left without a mother following a car crash in Australia.
Hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury makes it to TV
... for BBC One Comedy Playhouse
26/01/2016 … Inept hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury is to star in his own BBC One pilot.
Mark Watson pilots new TV show
Based on ...Makes The World Substantially Better
26/01/2016 … Mark Watson is working on a TV adaptation of his Radio 4 series …Makes The World Substantially Better.
Memorial gig for Harry Hill's TV 'son'
Al Murray reforms the pub band one last time
26/01/2016 … Harry Hill has launched a comic fundraiser in memory of Matt Bradstock-Smith, who played his ’adopted son Alan’ in his early career and who died of cancer aged…
Russell Howard dodges boobs
26/01/2016 … Russell Howard is to front a ‘celebrity boob ball’ tournament next week.
Comedian bids to become a cage fighter
'It's brutal' says Bryan Lacey as his MMA training starts
26/01/2016 … Comedian Bryan Lacey is retraining… as a cage fighter.
© Paul Lippiatt Ken Dodd's tickled by festival honour
Slapstick dubs him a 'comedy legend'
26/01/2016 … Ken Dodd has been awarded the Comedy Legend award by the Slapstick festival in Bristol He becomes only the third person to take the accolade, following…
Mon 25 January 2016
Jimmy Carr's dwarf joke WAS offensive, Ofcom rules
25/01/2016 … Jimmy Carr has landed The One Show in hot water with broadcast regulators Ofcom for making jokes about dwarves.
Frank Skinner 'has no show'
Comic returns to improvised stand-up
25/01/2016 … Frank Skinner is launching a new stand-up show, which he says will be entirely improvised.
Family Guy's transsexual episode cleared
25/01/2016 … Ofcom has ruled that an episode of Family Guy about a transgender woman did not breach its guidelines on causing offense.
Yonderland gets a third series
And Stephen Fry joins the cast
25/01/2016 … Sky’s Yonderland is to return for a third series – with Stephen Fry joining the cast.
Sun 24 January 2016
Vic and Bob (and Limmy)
The best of the comedy week ahead
24/01/2016 … The comedy week ahead…Monday January 25LIVE IN LONDON: Leading indie venue and producers The Invisible Dot have booked the Hammersmith Apollo to celebrate their…
Sat 23 January 2016
'Offensive' material... for free
23/01/2016 … Brendon Burns: So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive NowBrendon Burns has put his full award-winning 2007 show online, and for free, all in the name of context.
Fri 22 January 2016
Harry Hill leads new batch of iPlayer comedies
Funny Valentines 2016 announced
22/01/2016 … Harry Hill, Stephen Mangan and Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray are to make new shorts for the BBC iPlayer.
© Paul Rider Robbie Coltrane to play sex-case comedian
Yewtree-inspired drama for Channel 4
22/01/2016 … Robbie Coltrane is to play a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police operation into historic sex crimes.
Legal victory for Bill Cosby
22/01/2016 … Bill Cosby has won a legal victory in his battle against a flurry of sexual abuse allegations.
© BBC BBC comedy loses its second exec this week
Ben Farrell goes back to indie Objective
22/01/2016 … The BBC’s in-house comedy department has lost its second executive in a week.
'Seriously, give me a clown on the table'
22/01/2016 … •‘Nothing that is mere wordplay is ever witty, so the man who makes puns must do all his own laughing.
© Christopher William Adach/Creative Commons Julie Walters joins sex-case drama
Alongside Robbie Coltrane as a comedian under scrutiny
22/01/2016 … Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough are to join Robbie Coltrane in a new Channel 4 drama about a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police…
Thu 21 January 2016
Kelly Brook joins Lemon & McGuinness show
Playing Wonder Woman in one skecth
21/01/2016 … Kelly Brook is to appear in the planned new Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness sketch show.
Amy Schumer hits back at joke thief claims
And she's ready to take a lie detector test
21/01/2016 … Amy Schumer has promised to take a lie detector test to show that she hasn’t stolen jokes.
Philomena Cunk gets her own show
21/01/2016 … Philomena Cunk has been given her own show – about Shakespeare.
© Gary Knight / Creative Commons Corbyn: The Musical in the pipeline
Lolly Adefope could play Diane Abbott
21/01/2016 … A comedy musical about Jeremy Corbyn is to hit London later this year.
© Richard Davenport Book deal for Fake It Til You Make It duo
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn return to male depression
21/01/2016 … Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn – whose comic-theatre show about depression Fake It 'Til You Make It was a fringe hit last year – have signed…
Who's coming to Successville?
Emma Bunton and Vicky Pattison play detective
21/01/2016 … Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton and Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison are to play detective in the next series of Murder In Successville.
Wed 20 January 2016
Midland bankers
Central England's top comics and clubs honoured
20/01/2016 … Stand-ups Tom Binns and Barry Dodds have taken home top accolades at tonight's Midlands Comedy Awards.
© BBC Car Share takes best comedy at National TV Awards
As Billy Connolly's career hailed
20/01/2016 … Peter Kay’s Car Share has been named best comedy at the National Television Awards.
© BBC/Richard Ansett Revealed: Who's in the next Inside No 9 series
Guest stars include Felicity Kendal and Fiona Shaw
20/01/2016 … The cast has been announced for the third series of Inside No 9.
© UKTV Laugh your way slim
Research: Watching TV comedies burns calories
20/01/2016 … Watching sitcoms and laughing out loud can help people to lose weight, according to research.
To Russia with jokes
The first British comic to perform in Moscow, in Russian
20/01/2016 … Stand-up Abi Roberts is claiming an international first in becoming the first British comedian to perform in Russia - in Russian.
Radio 4 renews Jenny Eclair's Little Lifetimes
Third series of monologues for 2016
20/01/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of Little Lifetimes monologues from Jenny Eclair.
Steve Coogan to play Richard Gere's brother
In a film adaptation of bestseller The Dinner
20/01/2016 … Steve Coogan is to star alongside Richard Gere in a new film drama set over a tense meal at a swanky restaurant.
BBC comedy boss steps down
Myfanwy Moore quits after two years
20/01/2016 … The BBC’s head of comedy production, Myfanwy Moore, is to leave the Corporation after less than two years in the job.
Tue 19 January 2016
© BBC/Tiger Aspect/Matt Squire Official: Boy Meets Girl to return
19/01/2016 … BBC Two has officially confirmed that Boy Meets Girls will be returning for a second series later this year.
Peter Kay's back catalogue raided again
Backwards-looking BBC plans MORE tributes
19/01/2016 … The BBC is to air ANOTHER tribute to Peter Kay’s comedy career - this one spanning six half-hour episodes.
Jimmy Carr's Netflix special gets a release date
Plus live shows from Patton Oswalt and Hannibal Buress
19/01/2016 … Jimmy Carr’s Netflix special is to be released on March 18, the streaming giant has announced.
© BBC BBC orders a fifth series of Citizen Khan
19/01/2016 … BBC One has commissioned a fifth series of Citizen Khan.
Mon 18 January 2016
Steve Coogan to play Stan Laurel
With John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy
18/01/2016 … Steve Coogan is to play Stan Laurel in a new biopic of Laurel and Hardy.
© Comic Relief Jo Brand's 'Hell Of A Walk'
150-mile UK trek for Sports Relief
18/01/2016 … Jo Brand is to take part in a 150-mile coast-to-coast trek for Sport Relief.
Stars revealed for the first Netflix Black Mirror
18/01/2016 … The first stars have been named for the new episodes of Black Mirror to be made for Netflix.
Having a blast!
Catherine Tate stars in A-bomb musical
18/01/2016 … Catherine Tate is to star in a new comic musical, set in America’s atomic age.
Victory for Veep
...and Deborah Francis White in Writers' Guild awards
18/01/2016 … Veep has scooped the Writers’ Guild award for best TV comedy – with Deborah Francis-White taking the radio category.
Sun 17 January 2016
Some hack comedy you'll enjoy...
The best of the comedy week ahead
17/01/2016 … The best of the comedy week ahead… Sunday January 17 RADIO: The BBC’s Asian Network presents a stand-up show marking 50 years of Asian programming.
Sat 16 January 2016
Matt Groening plans new animated series
Simpsons creator 'in talks with Netflx'
16/01/2016 … <P>Simpsons creator Matt Groening is in talks with Netflix to create a new animated comedy.
Fri 15 January 2016
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Hills fingers crocodiles
15/01/2016 … • 'So I've got Parkinson's disease.
R4 recommissions Simon Evans Goes To Market
Four more episodes for the summer
15/01/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of the comedy economics show Simon Evans Go To Market.
Thu 14 January 2016
Johnny Vegas to appear in Top Gear rival
14/01/2016 … Johnny Vegas is to appear in a new ITV motoring show to rival the BBC's relaunched Top Gear.
E4 orders Tom Basden comedy
Foreign Bodies based on backpacking
14/01/2016 … Tom Basden is writing a new backpacking comedy-drama for E4.
Friends 'reunion' on the cards
14/01/2016 … THE cast of Friends are to reunite for a one-off American TV special honouring legendary sitcom director James Burrows.
Permission to laugh?
How comics get audiences to accept contentious gags
14/01/2016 … Any audience can be ‘manipulated’ into laughing at jokes about contentious topics, a conference about comedy has been told.
A rich seam of comedy?
C4's new show about instant tech millionaires
14/01/2016 … Fresh Meat and Peep Show writer Jon Brown is penning a new series about four life-long friends who become multi-millionaires overnight.
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.
'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.
Netflix signs Miranda Sings
Haters Back Off coming soon...
14/01/2016 … Internet comedy star Miranda Sings has been signed up by Netflix.
Wed 13 January 2016
Bob Mortimer reveals his secret wedding
Ceremony half an hour before heart op
13/01/2016 … Bob Mortimer secretly married his long-term partner just half an hour before undergoing triple bypass surgery.
The Smartest Man in Glasgow
13/01/2016 … Greg Proops is coming to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival to record an episode of his Smartest Man In The World podcast.
TV comedy to revisit stand-up's golden era
13/01/2016 … A new TV comedy is to be based around the burgeoning 1970s Los Angeles stand-up scene.
Why studio execs almost axed The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Steve Carell 'looked like a serial killer'
13/01/2016 … Steve Carell has revealed that The 40-Year-Old Virgin almost never made it into cinemas – because studio bosses thought he looked 'too much like a serial killer'.
Vic and Bob on their new stage show
‘We can't remember what we're supposed to do.'
13/01/2016 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have toyed with the idea of taking House Of Fools on tour.
Comedian arrested for mocking guru
Devotees say their ‘religious sentiments’ were hurt
13/01/2016 … An Indian comedian has been arrested after mocking a spiritual guru on TV.
Tue 12 January 2016
Now it's Dr Jo Brand
12/01/2016 … JO BRAND has today picked up her honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University.
The Big Bang Query
Neil Delamere to host new comedy-science quiz
12/01/2016 … Irish comedian Neil Delamere is to host a new comedy-science panel show.
Edinburgh Fringe gets a new chief executive
Shona McCarthy takes over in March
12/01/2016 … Shona McCarthy has been appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Fringe.
This research into sarcasm is really important
Older people don't get the joke
12/01/2016 … Older people are not as good at getting sarcastic jokes, because they take the statements too literally.
Elly's on the telly
DeGeneres's talk show finds a UK home
12/01/2016 … Ellen DeGeneres’s US talk show is coming to the UK.
2.9m see Tracey Ullman's return
But sketch show divides critics
12/01/2016 … Tracey Ullman's return to British TV proved a ratings success last night.
Mon 11 January 2016
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.
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…
© Amanda Sims New radio series for John Shuttleworth
11/01/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of John Shuttleworth’s Lounge Music.
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.
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.
'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.
Sun 10 January 2016
Puppy Love to return
Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine to make a US version
10/01/2016 … Axed BBC sitcom Puppy Love is to return – but in the States.
Alan Partridge meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The pick of the comedy week ahead
10/01/2016 … The pick of the comedy week ahead.
Rhod Gilbert to host comedians boxing
10/01/2016 … Rhod Gilbert has been named as the host of the comedians' boxing match next month.
Fri 08 January 2016
Dirk Gently returns to TV
08/01/2016 … Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is returning to TV.
Nick Helm up for a Bafta
Elephant nominated for best short film
08/01/2016 … Nick Helm's short film Elephant has been nominated for a Bafta.
Rhod Gilbert seeks Britain's best part-time band
08/01/2016 … Rhod Gilbert is to host a new BBC show seeking the best amateur band in the country.
Billy Connolly's 50-year career honoured
National Television Awards hail comic's talents
08/01/2016 … Billy Connolly is to receive a special prize honouring his 50-year career at the National Television Awards.
Jongleurs loses its Glasgow home
08/01/2016 … Jongleurs has unexpectedly lost its Glasgow home – with just a few days' notice.
'I thought Kanye was a shop assistant'
08/01/2016 … • Tracey Ullman once confused Kanye West for a shop assistant.
Patrick Kielty puts Bad Language on the BBC
08/01/2016 … Patrick Kielty is to host a BBC panel show about the English language.
Terry Jones short story gets animated
Film version of The Truthful Phone planned
08/01/2016 … A little-known short story from Terry Jones is set to be adapted into a short film.
Thu 07 January 2016
Inside Amy Schumer renewed for 5th series
07/01/2016 … A new series of Inside Amy Schumer has been ordered by Comedy Central.
BBC plans a 'British Saturday Night Live'
Producers briefed on format ideas
07/01/2016 … The BBC is planning a Saturday Night Live-style comedy variety show.
© BBC Worldwide Lost Dad's Army episode to be released as an animation
07/01/2016 … A long-lost episode of Dad’s Army is to be revived – as an animation.
What's happening with C4's Irish famine sitcom?
Nothing... despite what you might have read
07/01/2016 … Channel 4 say 'nothing has changed' over the controversial comedy set amid the Irish potato famine.
Wed 06 January 2016
Goodbye Girls
Lena Dunham's comedy series to end next year
06/01/2016 … Lena Dunham's comedy Girls is to end with one more series in 2017.
Tue 05 January 2016
© BBC Comedies up for 2015 National TV awards
05/01/2016 … PETER KAY's Car Share, Not Going Out, Benidorm and Birds Of A Feather have been shortlisted for the best comedy of 2015 in the National Television Awards.
Bob Mortimer gets the all-clear to tour
05/01/2016 … Bob Mortimer has been given the all-clear to return to the stage.
Barry Humphries slams timid BBC
Dame Edna 'could only mock Corbyn if she ridiculed Cameron, too'
05/01/2016 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries claims he was only allowed to mock Jeremy Corbyn on the BBC, if he also joked about David Cameron.
Jailed for stealing Bill Bailey's tour bus
05/01/2016 … The thief who stole Bill Bailey's tour bus from outside a gig in Liverpool has been jailed for two years.
Chris Addison joins the Royal Opera
Comic stars in new Covent Garden production
05/01/2016 … Chris Addison is to become an opera star.
Mon 04 January 2016
Stan is no hoverboardman
04/01/2016 … STAN BOARDMAN is recovering from a broken wrist after falling off his grandson's 'hoverboard' on Boxing Day.
Sun 03 January 2016