All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Paul Manners/CC BY-SA 4.0 Judge sides with comic in wrongful arrest case
18/08/2017 … Michael Barrymore is to receive ‘more than nominal damages’ over his wrongful arrest over the death of Stuart Lubbock at the comedian’s home.
© Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CC BY-SA 2.0 Mystery illness strikes comic, 84
17/08/2017 … Pioneering comedian Dick Gregory has been admitted to hospital with a ‘serious’ medical condition.
17/08/2017 … Andy Zaltzman and Indian comedian Anuvab Pal, an occasional correspondent on his podcast The Bugle, are to team up for a new Radio 4 series.
Ross makes spoof magazine show for Radio 4
17/08/2017 … Ross Noble is to make a new spoof magazine show for the BBC.
...playing a divorced children's entertainer
17/08/2017 … Phil Ellis is to make a Radio 4 sitcom based on his bitter stand-up routines about his divorce.
Al Porter, Zoe Lyons, Felicity Ward and more...
17/08/2017 … Stand-ups including Al Porter, Zoe Lyons, Felicity Ward and Sophie Willan are making personal comedy shows for Radio 4.
Radio 4 orders comedy about end-of-the-world Preppers
17/08/2017 … Radio 4 is to launch a new sitcom about ‘preppers’ readying themselves for apocalypse.
17/08/2017 … Harry Hill’s Radio 4 sitcom Life On Egg has been picked up for a full series.
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