2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 29 July 2017
© Just For Laughs 'You can't win in comedy'
...but Montreal festival hails some of the finest nonetheless
29/07/2017 … Jim Carrey, Trevor Noah and Craig Ferguson were among the acts honoured at the Just For Laughs awards show in Montreal last night.
Fri 28 July 2017
Morgan Rees makes BBC New Comedy final
28/07/2017 … Morgan Rees has become the latest stand-up to make it through to the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedy award.
The comedy bubble is ready to burst
...so says comic-turned-historian Kliph Nesteroff
28/07/2017 … The comedy bubble is set to burst in the next few years, a leading entertainment historian has warned.
Winter is coming... to London!
West End dates for Graeme of Thrones parody show
28/07/2017 … Comedy parody Graeme of Thrones is transferring to London’s West End.
Red Dwarf XII: The first image
All the cast become mechanoids
28/07/2017 … TV channel Dave has released the first image from the new series of Red Dwarf XII, which is due to launch this autumn.
Thu 27 July 2017
Diversity in TV is 'super-problematic'
27/07/2017 … The way TV comedy approaches diversity is still ‘super-problematic’, one of HBO’s top executives has claimed.
It's Jerry $einfeld
The world's highest-earning stand-up
27/07/2017 … Jerry Seinfeld has topped the list of the world's highest-paid stand-up comedians.