Sam Campbell wins Australia's Barry Award
For best show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
21/04/2018 … Oddball comedian Sam Campbell has won the prestigious Barry Award for the best show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 21 April 2018
Fri 20 April 2018
Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan to play sisters in new comedy
Happy revolves around anxiety and depression
20/04/2018 … Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan are to play sisters in a dark new sitcom for Channel 4, Chortle can reveal.
Joel Dommett: I'm returning to the jungle
Comic will host I'm A Celeb... spin-off for a second year
20/04/2018 … Joel Dommett will be hosting the I’m A Celebrity spin-off show Extra Camp for a second year.
Ricky Gervais announces his first SuperNature gigs
But warns the works in progress will be a 'shambles'
20/04/2018 … Ricky Gervais has announced his first ever 'work in progress' shows for his next stand-up special SuperNature.
Lost Voice Guy to appear on Britain's Got Talent
20/04/2018 … Lost Voice Guy Lee Ridley is to appear on Britain's Got Talent tomorrow night.
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Third series for This Country
20/04/2018 … BBC Three has commissioned a third series of rural comedy This Country as well as a one-off special.
Thu 19 April 2018
John Oliver scoops a Peabody
As does Hasan Minhaj, SNL and more...
19/04/2018 … John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj’s stand-up special, and Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, about a pioneering female comedian of the 1950s, have all won Peabody…
© BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions When is Car Share coming back?
Peter Kay reveals broadcast dates of final two episodes
19/04/2018 … Peter Kay has confirmed the air dates for the final two episodes of his sitcom Car Share.