Female comics up for Edinburgh bursary
Who will take 99 Club's £500 awards?
18/05/2018 … The finalists have been announced for the comedians up for the £500 bursaries that London’s 99 Club is offering to female comedians heading to Edinburgh.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 18 May 2018
David Tennant and Catherine Tate to co-star in Sky comedy
18/05/2018 … Doctor Who co-stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate are set to be reunited in a new TV comedy.
Gillian Anderson to star in Netflix comedy
Playing a sex therapist with a virgin teenage son
18/05/2018 … Gillian Anderson is to star in a new comedy-drama for Netflix entitled Sex Education.
Romesh Ranganathan pilots topical BBC Two panel show
The Ranganation will pitch ideas to focus groups
18/05/2018 … Romesh Ranganathan is to host a topical panel show pilot for BBC Two.
Jason Manford adds new tour dates
18/05/2018 … Jason Manford has announced extra 31 brand new dates to his live tour ‘Muddle Class, taking it into 2019.
© BBC/House Of Tomorrow Philomena Cunk writes her first book
An encylopaedia about 'everying'
18/05/2018 … Philomena Cunk is to release her first book.
Thu 17 May 2018
Richard Gadd joins Princess Diana film
Playing a drag queen she meets in a gay bar
17/05/2018 … Richard Gadd is to appear as a drag queen in the TV film about the night Kenny Everett and Freddie Mercury smuggled Princess Diana into a gay cabaret bar dressed…
© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 Harry Styles' life becomes a sitcom
US comedy based on 1D star's early life
17/05/2018 … Harry Styles’ life is to be turned into a sitcom.