Stewart Lee films post-punk documentary
The Nightingales movie also features Frank Skinner
20/12/2018 … Stewart Lee has been secretly shooting a documentary about Birmingham post-punk band The Nightingales.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 20 December 2018
Sky isn't sick of Sick Of It
Second series for Karl Pilkington comedy
20/12/2018 … Karl Pilkington’s Sky comedy Sick Of It has been commissioned for a second series.
Elvis Dead heads to Melbourne
Australian fest announces more shows
20/12/2018 … Rob Kemp’s retelling of the Evil Dead 2 through the songs of Elvis Presley is heading to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Ricky Gervais joins top ten best-paid comedians list
Stand-up pocketed $25million, say Forbes
20/12/2018 … Ricky Gervais has entered the top ten of the world’s highest-paid comedians for the first time – and it’s largely down to Netflix.
A second series of Who Is America? would be impossible, says Sacha Baron Cohen
...as he reveals why Sarah Palin interview was never aired
20/12/2018 … Sacha Baron Cohen says he won’t be bringing Who Is America? back anytime soon – as people had wised up to what he was doing.
Wed 19 December 2018
© C4/Ben Meadows Matt Berry spoofs Brexit
In a satirical documentary for BBC Two
19/12/2018 … Matt Berry is making a Brexit-themed satire for BBC Two, Chortle can reveal.
Lecicester Comedy Fest announces its competition finalists
Promising newbies, pun-slingers and golden oldies
19/12/2018 … The finalists have been announced for the range of competitions run by the Leicester Comedy Festival.
© HBO Why John Oliver's savaging of Brexit was banned in the UK
...and why you can still watch it anyway
19/12/2018 … Footage of John Oliver savaging Theresa May over her Brexit deal has been banned in the UK.