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.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 22 November 2016
© 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.
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.
© 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.
© 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.
© Hungry McBear / BBC Michael McIntyre beats X Factor
21/11/2016 … Michael McIntyre proved more popular than X Factor on Saturday night.
© 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…