© Andy Hollingworth Comics raise cash for a vagina museum
10/04/2017 … Barely a day goes by without comedians holding a benefit gig for one good cause or another… but this has to be one of the more unusual.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 10 April 2017
© Andy Hollingworth 
Simon Amstell to direct his second film
Benjamin is about 'intimacy and despair'
10/04/2017 … Simon Amstell is to direct his second film, after making his debut with the iPlayer mockumentary Carnage.
© Jim Lee Ghenoa dances off with the Deadly title
Victory in Australia's Indigenous comedy competition
10/04/2017 … Dancer Ghenoa Gela won the Deadly Funny competition for Indigenous Australian comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the weekend.
Satirist John Clarke dies while hiking
10/04/2017 … Satirist John Clarke has died aged 68 while on a hiking trip.
© Manuel Harlan Two Oliviers for Groundhog Day
10/04/2017 … Tim Minchin's Groundhog Day won two Olivier awards last night.
Sun 09 April 2017
A plug for the Bath festival...
The best of the week's live comedy
09/04/2017 … The best of the week's live comedy.
Send in Zach's clowns...
The best TV and radio comedy of the week
09/04/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.
How Blackadder was almost set in the Russian Revolution
...with Rik Mayall as Rasputin
09/04/2017 … Blackadder could have returned with a series set at the time of the Russian Revolution, star Rowan Atkinson has revealed.