All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Idil Sukan Broadcaster picks up eight-part series
06/07/2018 … BBC Two has picked up the TV adaptation of comedian Adam Kay’s bestselling medical memoirs, This Is Going To Hurt.
© Airane Grande/Instagram Ariana Grande speaks about her fiancé's Manchester bombing gag
06/07/2018 … Ariana Grande has defended her comedian fiancé over a joke he made over the terrorist bombing at her Manchester Arena gig, but admitted she found it tough…
© Joella Marano / Creative Commons 06/07/2018 … American cable company Showtime is teasing a comedy show that's 'perhaps the most dangerous show in the history of television' – prompting rumours that it is…
...with Paul Sinha one of the team captains
05/07/2018 … ITV has ordered a new football-based quiz show, hosted by Tim Vine.
Comic to appear in their O2 gigs
05/07/2018 … Adam Hills is to join The Muppets on stage in London next week.
...with Sylvester McCoy in the lead role
05/07/2018 … Sketch troupe The Penny Dreadfuls are to tackle Don Quixote in their next Radio 4 special – and former Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy is to take the title role.
With 'the best of the new breed of great British comedy talent'
05/07/2018 … The full cast has been unveiled for Ricky Gervais’s new Netflix comedy series, After Life.
© BBC/Fremantle Media/Talkback 05/07/2018 … The seventh annual QI book – 2,024 Facts to Stop You In Your Tracks – is to be published in October after Faber & Faber acquired the rights.
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