Second radio award for Mark Steel
BBC honours Who Do You Think You Are? show
22/03/2018 … Mark Steel has won his second radio award in a week.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 22 March 2018
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Starry line-up for Hilarity for Charity
Comedy benefit heading to Netflix
22/03/2018 … Netflix has announced the starry lineup for its comedy special Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity.
Comics to rock the Granite City
Aberdeen Comedy Festival confirms third year
22/03/2018 … The Aberdeen Comedy Festival has announced that it will be returning for a third year.
Glasgow blaze halts Jonathan Pie show
But Pavilion Theatre avoids major damage
22/03/2018 … Jonathan Pie's Glasgow Comedy Festival show has been cancelled tonight, because of a fire raging in the city centre.
A guide to the working-class comics
One stand-up's idea for the Edinburgh Fringe
22/03/2018 … The huge costs of putting on a show at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been blamed for helping to make comedy an increasingly middle-class pursuit.
Book deal for Adam Hills
His autobiography, Best Foot Forward, will be published this summer
22/03/2018 … Adam Hills has signed a book deal for his autobiography, Best Foot Forward.
Monty Python comes to Netflix
Streaming giant snaps up back catalogue
22/03/2018 … Monty Python's back catalogue is coming to Netflix, with the streaming giant also planning to commission new work from the group.
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian This Country duo up for two Baftas
...as Mackenzie Crook is recognised for his directing on Detectorists
22/03/2018 … This Country creators Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper have been nominated for two Baftas – two days after scooping three Royal…