Amy Poehler creates new animated comedy
20/08/2017 … Amy Poehler is joining forces with Simpsons veterans Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully to create a new animated comedy.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 20 August 2017
© Andy Hollingworth New comedy festival in the Wyldes of Cornwall
20/08/2017 … The week ahead in live comedy.
© BBC / Guy Levy Ben Elton on the studio sitcom
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
20/08/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.
Voting opens for Comedians' Choice 2017
For best shows and performers at the Fringe
20/08/2017 … Comedians working at the Edinburgh Fringe have been invited to vote for their favourite colleagues and shows at the festival.
© Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CC BY-SA 2.0 Dick Gregory dies at 84
Comedian and activist broke barriers
20/08/2017 … Pioneering comedian and activist Dick Gregory has died aged 84.
Sat 19 August 2017
An Angel of the North
Lauren Pattison picks up Fringe accolade
19/08/2017 … Lauren Pattison has won a Herald Angel award for her debut Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show, Lady Muck.
Fri 18 August 2017
Birds Of A Feather gets another Christmas special
18/08/2017 … Birds Of A Feather is to return for a new Christmas special, star Lesley Joseph has revealed.
Didn't he do well?
Bruce Forsyth dies at 89 after a brilliant TV career
18/08/2017 … Sir Bruce Forsyth has died aged 89 – after a 75-year career in showbusiness The former Strictly Come Dancing presenter had been unwell for some time…