Leicester Comedy Festival seeks judges
16/11/2018 … The Leicester Comedy Festival is seeking comedy fans to join its judging panel.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 16 November 2018
© Amy Schumer/Instagram Amy Schumer hospitalised
Gigs cancelled as comic suffers pregnancy complications
16/11/2018 … Amy Schumer has been hospitalised because of complications with her pregnancy.
Thu 15 November 2018
© Steve Ullathorne BBC Scotland unveils new comedy pilots
Including stand-up, panel shows and a late-night satire
15/11/2018 … BBC Scotland has unveiled a new season of comedy pilots called Funny Firsts, kicking off from next week.
‘Someone’s dreaming of a white Christmas’
Diversity row engulfs Harry Hill's charity gig
15/11/2018 … Organisers of a massive comedy gig have apologised after finding themselves at the heart of diversity storm because they advertised an all-white line-up.
Stephen Fry reunites with the QI team
For an episode of the researchers' No Such Thing As A Fish podcast
15/11/2018 … Three years after leaving QI, Stephen Fry has headed back into the show’s nerve centre.
© BBC Fleabag hits New York
Phoebe Waller-Bridge to perform a five-week run off Broadway
15/11/2018 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to take her original version of Fleabag to the New York stage.
© BBC Liam Williams joins new BBC Three comedy
Back To Life is written by Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon
15/11/2018 … Comedian Liam Williams has joined the cast of Daisy Haggard's new BBC Three series Back To Life.
Wed 14 November 2018
Jimmy Carr's tour grows to 169 dates
14/11/2018 … Hard-working Jimmy Carr has added an extra 20 nights to his 2019-20 tour, Terribly Funny, bringing the total number of gigs up to a mammoth 169.