© Chris Fleming/CC BY-SA 2.0 Tim Key up for Australian comedy prize
14/04/2018 … Tim Key has been nominated for the most prestigious prize in Australian comedy.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 14 April 2018
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Mark Silcox joins Joe Lycett's pilot
...as a tech expert on his consumer affairs show
14/04/2018 … Deadpan stand-up Mark Silcox has joined the cast of the comedy consumer show Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back.
Ali Wong releases another stand-up special when pregnant
Hard Knock Wife out on Mother's Day
14/04/2018 … Ali Wong is to make a second Netflix stand-up special while pregnant.
Fri 13 April 2018
Mad About You reboot in the works
13/04/2018 … Nineties US sitcom Mad About You is heading for a comeback.
Sky confirms Barry air date
...as Bill Hader's quirky comedy is renewed for series 2
13/04/2018 … Sky Atlantic has announced a launch date for Bill Hader’s new comedy Barry – just as HBO confirms as second series.
New sci-fi movie for Alice Lowe
The Encounter close to wrapping
13/04/2018 … Alice Lowe is to star in a new sci-fi movie set in the 1980s.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures HBO buys Phoebe Waller-Bridge's romcom thriller
Run is the latest show from Fleabag's creator
13/04/2018 … HBO has snapped up the new romantic comedy thriller from Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.