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UK Pun Championships finalists announced
24/01/2019 … The finalists have been announced for this year’s UK Pun Championships, run by the Leicester Comedy Festival.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 24 January 2019
Amazon joins the stand-up business
By releasing its first original special, courtesy of Jim Gaffigan
24/01/2019 … Amazon Prime is to release its first stand-up special, with a new show from Jim Gaffigan.
New suffragette comedy for Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan
Pair adapt Old Baggage for the screen
24/01/2019 … Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan are set to be reunited on screen in a new TV comedy about suffragettes.
Tom Allen pilots a new dating show
Test run of new format to be taped next week
24/01/2019 … Tom Allen is piloting a new dating show.
Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw join Fleabag
‘They literally begged me to be in it.'
24/01/2019 … Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw are to join the second series of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, the BBC has announced.
Comics head to the Glasgow Film Festival
Michael Palin, Bo Burnham, Simon Amstell and more
24/01/2019 … Michael Palin, Bo Burnham, Simon Amstell and Alice Lowe are all set to attend this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, it was announced last night.
Matt Lucas to take on a role Kenny Everett made famous
For a new soundtrack of bygone West End musical The Hunting Of The Snark
24/01/2019 … Matt Lucas is to take over a role Kenny Everett first made famous on the stage.
Marc Maron announces UK and Irish dates
Comic and WTF podcasting coming in March
24/01/2019 … Mark Maron has announced four English and Irish dates in April.