Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus: I have cancer
29/09/2017 … Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has announced she has breast cancer, In a message posted on social media, she wrote: ‘1 in 8 women get breast cancer.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 29 September 2017
Marcus Brigstocke to play PT Barnum
New London production of the musical
29/09/2017 … Marcus Brigstocke is to play the world’s greatest showman, PT Barnum, on the London stage.
Thu 28 September 2017
David S. Pumpkins gets his own show
Tom Hanks' odd character returns for Halloween
28/09/2017 … Tom Hanks’s bizarre character David S.
Goose pilot an ITV2 gameshow
Taskmaster-style challenges from high-energy sketch act
28/09/2017 … Hyperactive sketch act Goose are piloting an ITV2 gameshow.
Only 65 years late... Lost Tony Hancock script finally gets heard
Vacant Lot predates Hancock's Half Hour
28/09/2017 … Two long-lost radio scripts written for Tony Hancock are to get an airing after 65 years.
Revealed: David Walliams' next children's book
28/09/2017 … David Walliams has revealed the title of his next children’s book: Bad Dad.
Louis CK's Horace And Pete comes to the stage
Adaptation for Galway comedy festival
28/09/2017 … Louis CK’s cult black comedy Horace and Pete is being adapted for the stage.
Wed 27 September 2017
Alan Partridge takes on Belgian prostitutes for an Emmy
...and Taskmaster is nominated too
27/09/2017 … Alan Partridge will have to beat off some Flemish male prostitutes to land an International Emmy.