The battle of Blackpool
Legal tussle could sink comedy club
19/06/2019 … Comedians have raised more than £1,000 to help a comedy promoter embroiled in a ‘David and Goliath’ tussle with a venue he used to book.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 19 June 2019
Smack The Pony reunion 'is not happening'
Doon Mackichan says no TV channel wants their new sketches
19/06/2019 … No broadcaster is prepared to air a Smack The Pony reunion, star Doon Mackichan has claimed.
Winchester comedy festival announces 2019 line-up
Including Phoenix Nights' Clinton Baptiste
19/06/2019 … Winchester Comedy Festival has announced the line-up for its seventh event, including Ed Byrne, Richard Herring and Clinton Baptiste – the hapless clairvoyant…
Comedy returns to the home of the Comic Strip
As Soho strip club is replaced by a new theatre
19/06/2019 … Comedy is returning to the London venue that was once home to the groundbreaking Comic Strip troupe.
This Country duo write their first book
..in the guise of a fake parish newsletter.
19/06/2019 … This Country siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper are to write their first book.
Ricky Gervais returns to Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld's guests also include Eddie Murphy
19/06/2019 … Ricky Gervais and Eddie Murphy are among the guests chatting to Jerry Seinfeld in the next series of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Tue 18 June 2019
© Nobby Clark First images of Jennifer Saunders in Blithe Spirit
New production of Noel Coward classic
18/06/2019 … Here are the first images of Jennifer Saunders in the new stage production of Blithe Spirit.
New sitcom from Clare In The Community writers
...about a Scottish tour guide
18/06/2019 … The writers of Radio 4’s long-running sitcom Clare In The Community have created a new comedy for the station.