© ITV Vic Reeves wins phone hacking settlement
Rupert Murdoch's papers pay up
18/01/2018 … Vic Reeves has received a last-minute settlement over phone hacking from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 18 January 2018
© ITV 
Amazon axes Tig Notaro's One Mississippi
Web giant 'moving away from niche comedy'
18/01/2018 … Tig Notaro’s acclaimed comedy show One Mississippi has been cancelled after two series.
© BBC BBC orders Martin Clunes sitcom
Playing a driving instructor called Warren
18/01/2018 … The BBC has commissioned Martin Clunes’s sitcom comeback, Warren, following a successful pilot.
© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Ken Dodd in hospital with chest infection
18/01/2018 … Sir Ken Dodd is in hospital with a severe chest infection.
Wed 17 January 2018
Russell Peters to play the UK
17/01/2018 … Russell Peters is to play three UK dates this spring as part of his Deported World Tour.
We liked our jobs, say Fringe workers
According to survey in response to union fears of exploitation
17/01/2018 … More than 80 per cent of people who worked at the Edinburgh Fringe were satisfied with their experience.
Comedy Central orders more Your Face Or Mine
Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan to return
17/01/2018 … Comedy Central has commissioned two more series of its game show Your Face or Mine.
Another series? Tick
Amazon renews Peter Serafinowicz's superhero comedy
17/01/2018 … Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of the comedy superhero series The Tick, starring Peter Serafinowicz in the title role.