Atlanta gets a third series
FX renews Donald Glover comedy
07/06/2018 … Donald Glover’s acclaimed comedy Atlanta has been renewed for a third series.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 07 June 2018
© Channel 4 Channel 4 orders a sitcom about a Syrian asylum-seeker
Broadcaster picks up Rufus Jones's Home
07/06/2018 … Channel 4 has ordered a new sitcom based on the life of a Syrian refugee who enters Britain illegally to claim asylum.
© Channel 4 C4 orders 'The Sweeney in Victorian England'
Matt Berry to star in period cop comedy Year Of The Rabbit
07/06/2018 … Matt Berry is making a Victorian crime comedy entitled Year Of The Rabbit for Channel 4.
Seann Walsh announces autumn tour
After This One, I’m Going Home hits the road after Edinburgh Fringe
07/06/2018 … Seann Walsh has announced a 51-date autumn tour.
Stand-ups unite on new musical comedy
Based on an Aristophanes classic
07/06/2018 … Jenny Eclair, Shappi Khorsandi and Natalie Haynes are to write a new musical comedy together.
Hammerhead nails it
Brighton Fringe Award for Joseph Morpurgo
07/06/2018 … Joseph Morpurgo has won the prize for the best comedy show at the Brighton Fringe.
Harry Hill announces his first tour in five years
07/06/2018 … Harry Hill has announced his first tour in five years – with a show aimed squarely at children.
© Andy Hollingworth Dylan Moran attacks 'panel show wankers'
'That's the opposite of comedy'
07/06/2018 … Dylan Moran has slammed panel shows – and Radio 4’s humorous output – as being ‘the opposite of comedy’.