Lucy Beaumont to front Hull documentary
12/01/2017 … Lucy Beaumont is to present a BBC documentary about her home town of Hull.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 12 January 2017
Wed 11 January 2017
Vic Reeves joins Funny Cow movie
11/01/2017 … VIC REEVES and Diane Morgan have 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…
Tue 10 January 2017
One of Carrie Fisher's final roles to be aired
Playing a waitress in Sky Arts comedy
10/01/2017 … Sky TV is to air one of Carrie Fisher's last roles.
Limmy writes more daft wee stories
Book tour to plug his second anthology
10/01/2017 … Scottish comedian Limmy has written a second book of short stories.
Mon 09 January 2017
© BBC BBC picks up new Mrs Brown show
Saturday Night entertainment format
09/01/2017 … Mrs Brown is to host a new Saturday night entertainment show, All Round To Mrs Brown’s, on BBC One.
© C4 Trigger Happy's rampant rabbits rapped
Breakfast broadcast 'inappropriate'
09/01/2017 … TV station London Live has apologised for showing people dressed in rabbit costumes simulating sex in an episode of Trigger Happy TV which went out at breakfast…
TV company rapped for racist language
Comedian was speaking in an interview 40 years ago
09/01/2017 … A TV station has been censured for airing a 38-year-old interview in which a comedian used the word ‘coon’.
Alan Davies gets a fifth series of As Yet Untitled
09/01/2017 … The Dave channel has commissioned a fifth series of Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled.