© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Third series for This Country
20/04/2018 … BBC Three has commissioned a third series of rural comedy This Country as well as a one-off special.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 20 April 2018
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Thu 19 April 2018
John Oliver scoops a Peabody
As does Hasan Minhaj, SNL and more...
19/04/2018 … John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj’s stand-up special, and Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, about a pioneering female comedian of the 1950s, have all won Peabody…
© BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions When is Car Share coming back?
Peter Kay reveals broadcast dates of final two episodes
19/04/2018 … Peter Kay has confirmed the air dates for the final two episodes of his sitcom Car Share.
E4 buys US comedy evoking the 80s fitness craze
19/04/2018 … E4 has bought the rights to US sitcom Let’s Get Physical, whose cast features Dr Quinn Medicine Woman star Jane Seymour.
Nerds on film
Science comedy team to tape a new DVD
19/04/2018 … Festival Of The Spoken Nerd are to release their latest show You Can’t Polish A Nerd on DVD.
© Just For Laughs Jimmy Carr announces Montreal run
As part of Just For Laughs festival
19/04/2018 … Jimmy Carr is to perform a run of his solo show at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival this summer.
Wed 18 April 2018
© Harald Krichel/CC BY-SA 4.0 Idris Elba to star in Netflix comedy
18/04/2018 … Idris Elba is to star as a DJ in a semi-autobiographical comedy for Netflix.
© Just For Laughs Andy Kindler joins comedy movie
Playing a trainer in The Fiddling Horse
18/04/2018 … Comedian Andy Kindler is set to star in The Fiddling Horse, a new dark comedy movie from director CJ Wallis.