Comics sign up to Celebrity Call Centre
Joel Dommet and Mo Gilligan play agony uncles
24/09/2018 … Comedians Mo Gilligan and Joel Dommett have signed up to be agony uncles on a celebrity-staffed helpline.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 24 September 2018
Idris Elba's In The Long Run gets a second series
Sky recommissions 1980s-set comedy
24/09/2018 … Idris Elba’s 1980s-set comedy series In The Long Run is to get a second series.
Mel and Sue to star in their first sitcom together
24/09/2018 … Mel and Sue are to star in their first sitcom together – playing a pair of hapless killers.
© BBC David Walliams is the Prime Minister
...in an adaptation of Sue Townsend’s The Queen And I
24/09/2018 … Samantha Bond is to play the Queen and David Walliams the Prime Minister in a new Sky One comedy described as an 'interesting alternative' to Netflix blockbuster…
Revealed: The next batch of Sky comedy shorts
Full plot and cast details of the new run
24/09/2018 … Chortle can today reveal the full details of the next batch of Sky’s comedy shorts.
Sun 23 September 2018
© Ewen Roberts/Creative Commons Jessica Hynes writes a drama inspired by Spike Milligan
For a Radio 3 tribute also featuring a play from comic Toby Hadoke
23/09/2018 … W1A and Spaced star Jessica Hynes has written a short drama for Radio 3 about a writer on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
From David Cross to Chris Tucker
The best of the week's live comedy
23/09/2018 … The week's best live comedy.
Joel and Nish take on the world again
Watch a preview in our round-up of the week's comedy on TV and radio
23/09/2018 … The week’s best comedy on TV and radio… Monday September 24TRAVEL MAN: 48 HOURS IN SLOVENIA Richard Ayoade is joined by Eddie Izzard to visit the Slovenian…