Romesh Ranganathan's US series to launch in June
Showtime's Just Another Immigrant charts his move to LA
30/04/2018 … The series charting Romesh Ranganathan’s attempts to crack America is to air on the US cable channel Showtime in June.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 30 April 2018
End of the line for People Just Do Nothing
Pirate radio comedy to stop after next series
30/04/2018 … People Just Do Nothing is to come to an end, the BBC has revealed.
Dark new comedy from Detectorist star Toby Jones
Playing a Bognor Regis coach driver
30/04/2018 … Detectorists star Toby Jones is to star as a Bognor Regis coach driver in a new dark comedy he has created for BBC Two.
Katherine Parkinson to star in new legal comedy
Defending The Guilty based on real barrister's book
30/04/2018 … Katherine Parkinson is to play a cynical lawyer in a new BBC Two comedy.
Alt-right spread vile libel about Michelle Wolf
...no she does NOT have a conviction for bestiality
30/04/2018 … American right-wingers have been spreading vile lies that Michelle Wolf has a conviction for bestiality.
Russell Brand pulls all his tour dates
Comic at his mother's bedside as she recovers from car crash
30/04/2018 … Russell Brand has pulled the rest of his tour to be withr his 71-year-old mother Barbara, after she was hurt in a serious car accident.
'Definitive' Charlie Chaplin biopic in the works
Family opens up archive to filmmakers
30/04/2018 … Previously unscreened Charlie Chaplin outtakes are to be included in a ‘definitive’ new movie biography of the comedy icon.
© BBC/Tiger Aspect Productions/Matt Squires BBC picks up bigamy comedy
The Other One goes to series after successful pilot
30/04/2018 … BBC Two has commissioned Holly Walsh's unconventional family sitcom The Other One for a series, Chortle can reveal.