Miranda Hart 'set to appear in Annie'
03/02/2017 … Miranda Hart is set to make her West End debut in the musical Annie.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 03 February 2017
Brexit voters not welcome
03/02/2017 … • 'Terrorists have made my job difficult.
© Johnny Vegas/Twitter Johnny Vegas and Ricky Tomlinson shoot comedy pilot
Set in the working-class clubs
03/02/2017 … Johnny Vegas and Ricky Tomlinson are shooting a comedy pilot.
Beyond parody
South Park is to stop mocking Donald Trump
03/02/2017 … South Park is to stop mocking Donald Trump – because his actions have gone beyond satire.
'His act was dark but his soul was gentle'
Former circuit comedian Stuart Hudson dies
03/02/2017 … Stuart Hudson, a familiar face on the comedy circuit in the late part of the 2000s, has died of sepsis.
Thu 02 February 2017
New book and radio show for Rob Newman
02/02/2017 … Radio 4 has commissioned Robert Newman to make a comedy series about the brain – to tie in with a book he’s also writing on the subject.
The next Fleabag?
BBC Three buys Irish comedy Can’t Cope, Won’t Cop
02/02/2017 … BBC Three has bought the rights to new Irish comedy-drama series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope.
© BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Steffan Hill Ardal O'Hanlon to take the lead in Death In Paradise
02/02/2017 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to take over as the star of BBC One’s Death In Paradise.