All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Sun Lee Tig Notaro, Gina Yashere and Mae Martin head to Montreal
13/06/2018 … Tig Notaro, Gina Yashere and Mae Martin have been added to the bill of the prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal next month.
13/06/2018 … League Of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss is to present a documentary about 20th century British artist John Minton for BBC Four.
Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan to return
13/06/2018 … Comedy Central has renewed its Roast Battle for a second series.
© BBC ...at the hotel where cast used to stay
12/06/2018 … Dad's Army is to be commemorated with a blue plaque at the pub where cast and crew stayed while filming on location.
Panel show to fix the world's problems
12/06/2018 … Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan are to star in a new comedy panel show for Netflix.
Susan Provan made an Officer of the Order Of Australia
12/06/2018 … Melbourne comedy festival boss Susan Provan has said she is ‘proud’ that the artform has been recognised after being honoured by the Queen.
...alongside Clark Gable's grandson as a heckler
12/06/2018 … Love Island’s Dani Dyer is to appear in a new horror film about a stand-up comedian stalked by a fiendish heckler.
Six episodes of his consumer affairs show ordered
12/06/2018 … Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back after a successful pilot of the comedy consumer affairs show.
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