Susan Calman's cancelled TV show is up for a Bafta
Armchair Detectives makes Scottish shortlist
26/09/2018 … Susan Calman’s daytime whodunit show Armchair Detectives has been nominated for a Bafta – despite being dropped after one series.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 26 September 2018
Comedy Central orders nine stand-up specials
26/09/2018 … Comedy Central UK has commissioned a new series of nine stand-up specials.
Tony Robinson raises Blackadder revival again
Is there a cunning plan... or just more talk?
26/09/2018 … It’s the story that refuses to go away: that Blackadder might be making a comeback.
Tue 25 September 2018
Free stand-up courses for refugees
Training for their debut gig as part of a new arts festival
25/09/2018 … Refugees are to be given training in stand-up comedy as part of a new festival about displacement.
![All he wants to do is [FX: GUNSHOTS] with a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and go on tour | John-Luke Roberts announces 2019 dates](/images/photos/small/jlr_john_luke_roberts_ed18.jpg "All he wants to do is [FX: GUNSHOTS] with a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and go on tour | John-Luke Roberts announces 2019 dates")
All he wants to do is [FX: GUNSHOTS] with a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and go on tour
John-Luke Roberts announces 2019 dates
25/09/2018 … John-Luke Roberts is to take his acclaimed Edinburgh show on the road.
© Montgomery County Planning Commission/CC BY-SA 2.0 Bill Cosby sentenced to three to ten years
Comedian judged a 'sexually violent predator’
25/09/2018 … Bill Cosby has been jailed for three to ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand more than a decade .
New comedy production house launched
...by writer Simon Nye and producer Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
25/09/2018 … Comedy writer Simon Nye and former BBC head of comedy Sophie Clarke-Jervoise have launched a new production house.
It's coming home!
Hackney Empire gets its New Act Competition back
25/09/2018 … The comedy talent hunt once known as the Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year is coming back to the venue where it started.