The eyes have it
Olaf Falafel and Lou Sanders win Edinburgh Poster Awards
27/08/2018 … Lou Sanders and Olaf Falafel have each won £500 in the Comedy Poster Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 27 August 2018
Sun 26 August 2018
Neil Simon dies at 91
‘One of the finest writers of comedy in American literary history'
26/08/2018 … Neil Simon, the playwright behind such comedies as The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.
Early Doors tour kicks off
The best of the week's live comedy
26/08/2018 … The best of the week's live comedy.
© BBC Nigel Planer joins Upstart Crow
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
26/08/2018 … Sunday August 26MURDER ON THE BLACKPOOL EXPRESS: The feature-length star-studded comedy whodunit, penned by comic Jason Cook, gets its Freeview premiere, having…
Sat 25 August 2018
Cuckoo clocks in
25/08/2018 … The week's best comedy on demand: Bert Kreischer: Secret Time You gotta have an angle as a stand-up, and Bert Kreischer's is that performs…
Rose Matafeo wins the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award
25/08/2018 … Rose Matafeo has become the first solo non-white winner of the Edinburgh Comedy award.
Revealed: the comedians' comedians of Edinburgh 2018
Fringe acts vote for their peers
25/08/2018 … Paul Currie, Lou Sanders and Laura Lexx have been named the comedians’ comedians of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Fri 24 August 2018
Steve Coogan pens a film about Welsh hippies
Story set in the rural Wales of 1969
24/08/2018 … Steve Coogan is making a film about a Welsh hippy commune in 1969.