Stephen Merchant to play a real-life serial killer
In a BBC drama about the victims of Stephen Port
10/02/2019 … Stephen Merchant is to play real-life serial killer Stephen Port in a new BBC drama.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 10 February 2019
© C4 Catastrophe bids farewell to Carrie Fisher... and to itself
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
10/02/2019 … The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.
Sat 09 February 2019
© BBC 
Ken Dodd left £27.5million
...and the taxman didn't see a penny
09/02/2019 … Sir Ken Dodd left his long-term partner £27.
Fri 08 February 2019
Slapstick Festival: We haven't come a cropper
Bristol event cancels its 2020 gala, but nothing more
08/02/2019 … Bristol’s Slapstick Festival of vintage comedy has reassured fans that it is going strong, despite cancelling its gala for next year.
E4 acquires Speechless
Minnie Driver's US comedy about a boy with cerebral palsy
08/02/2019 … Channel 4 has acquired all three seasons of the US comedy Speechless to air on E4.
© BBC/Endemol Shine Daily Mash sold for £1.2million
Satirical website that spawned The Mash Report
08/02/2019 … Satirical news website the Daily Mash, which inspired BBC Two’s The Mash Report, has been sold for £1.