Line-up announced for Linda Smith tribute gig
Fundraiser for Target Ovarian Cancer
04/09/2018 … The line-up has been announced for the annual West End fundraiser in honour of Linda Smith.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 04 September 2018
© Gage Skidmore Comedians force festival to drop Steve Bannon
New Yorker accedes after boycott threat
04/09/2018 … Comedians have forced Donald Trump’s strategist Steve Bannon off the bill of a major festival after threatening to boycott the event.
Mon 03 September 2018
Barry Cryer pays tribute to comedy greats
...in a new series for Sky Arts
03/09/2018 … Barry Cryer is to celebrate some of the giants of comedy who he’s worked with in a new series for Sky Arts.
'Look at you, disabled bitch'
Mum's vile outburst at Tanyalee Davis caught on video
03/09/2018 … Tanyalee Davis has released a video showing a fellow train passenger calling her a ‘disabled bitch’.
Manchester gets its first podcast festival
Comedians feature in the inaugural event
03/09/2018 … Russell Kane, Richard Herring and Deborah Frances-White’s Guilty Feminist are among the attractions in the first ever Manchester Podcast Festival next month.
Rum and joke
Captain Morgan signs Comedy Central sponsorship deal
03/09/2018 … Comedy Central has struck a ten-month sponsorship deal with Captain Morgan rum.
Book deal for Instagram comedian Celeste Barber
Challenge Accepted! to be published this month
03/09/2018 … Australian comedian Celeste Barber has secured a UK publisher for her book Challenge Accepted! The stand-up has become an Instagram sensation for her photographs…
Comedians named for musical panel show
John Thomson, Rob Rouse and Pippa Evans
03/09/2018 … John Thomson, Rob Rouse and Pippa Evans are all taking part in a new musical-based panel show for BBC Two.