Trump gag tops Christmas cracker competition
Gold's annual list of topical puns
11/12/2018 … A joke about Donald Trump has won the Gold channel’s annual hunt for the best topical Christmas cracker gag.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 11 December 2018
Mon 10 December 2018
Missed it! Julia Davis's aborted Channel 4 comedy Morning Has Broken
Pilot posted online... then quickly vanishes
10/12/2018 … A previously unseen comedy pilot that Julia Davis filmed for Channel 4 has been released online – but just as quickly disappeared.
After 55 years, Dinner For One gets its first British TV broadcast
Comedy short is a festive staple around Europe
10/12/2018 … Dinner For One – the 55-year-old British comedy short that has become a German New Year tradition – is to be shown on British TV for the first time.
Comedy Central orders all-female online sketch show
Plus a show from Ryan Sampson and the return of Fin Taylor
10/12/2018 … Comedy Central has commissioned a new all-female sketch show, a series from Plebs star Ryan Sampson and a second series of Fin Taylor’s Bullshit Bingo – all…
Sun 09 December 2018
The Good Place comes to E4
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
09/12/2018 … The best of the week’s comedy on TV and radio.
Sat 08 December 2018
© BBC BBC blasted for its male-dominated Christmas
Festive comedy output shows a huge gender bias
08/12/2018 … The BBC has become embroiled in a sexism row after it was revealed than none of its Christmas comedy shows were created by women.
Brushes with greatness
Comedians take part in TV portrait contest
08/12/2018 … Vic Reeves, Joe Lycett, Josie Long and Phill Jupitus are to put their artistic talents to the test on one of the more erudite celebrity programmes of the festive…