'Then I started crying on stage...'
24/02/2017 … • 'When people go to a comedy show, there's an expectation that they wanna forget about things, but fuck that, you've got cats on YouTube now, you can watch that…
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 24 February 2017
BBC launches 'millennial relationship' comedy
24/02/2017 … BBC Three is releasing a new short-form comedy series about a relationship between two millennials.
Oldie but goodie...
Pete Teckman wins Leicester's Silver Stand-up contest
24/02/2017 … Pete Teckman was last night crowned Silver Stand-Up of the Year in a competition for older comedians.
Thu 23 February 2017
Sky's Mount Pleasant to end
Filming starts on 90-minute finale
23/02/2017 … Sky 1 comedy Mount Pleasant is to end after six years.
Simon Amstell announces 2017 tour
What Is This? described as a 'deeply personal' show
23/02/2017 … Simon Amstell has announced his fifth stand-up tour of the UK.
Joke 'is not to be taken seriously'
BBC's response to complaint against 'anti-Liverpool' gag
23/02/2017 … The BBC Trust has declined to intervene after a viewer complained about an anti-Liverpool joke on Have I Got News For You.
© BBC/Objective BBC Three gets even more Witless
Third series for gangland comedy
23/02/2017 … BBC Three has commissioned a third and apparently final series of its comedy Witless.
BBC to tell of Cosby's fall
New documentary ahead of comic's trial
23/02/2017 … The BBC is making an hour-long documentary about Bill Cosby’s fall from grace.