HBO specials for Ahir Shah and Rose Matafeo
Pair record stand-up shows for new streaming service
04/12/2019 … Rose Matafeo and Ahir Shah are to record stand-up specials for the new HBO Max streaming service in America.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 04 December 2019
Tue 03 December 2019
Vancouver up
Just For Laughs announces fifth festival in the city
03/12/2019 … Just for Laughs has announced its fifth comedy festival for Vancouver.
NextUp announces its December releases
Comedy on-demand service's new arrivals
03/12/2019 … Comedy on-demand subscription service NextUp has announced which stand-up specials will be dropping on the platform this month.
Amused Moose starts its 2020 new act hunt
03/12/2019 … Amused Moose Comedy has launched its annual talent hunt for new comedians.
Philomena Cunk's back!
Diane Morgan's character returns for a round-up of 2019
03/12/2019 … Philomena Cunk is to look back at the events of the year in a new BBC Two special.
BBC orders a comedy-drama based around Parkinson's
From writer Paul Mayhew-Archer
03/12/2019 … The BBC has commissioned a romantic comedy about people with Parkinson's disease, written by Vicar of Dibley writer Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the condition…
© BBC Unsportsmanlike behaviour!
Nish Kumar booed off stage at cricket charity do
03/12/2019 … Nish Kumar has been booed off stage at a charity night after making jokes about Brexit.
© BBC Tim Renkow's Jerk will be back
03/12/2019 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Tim Renkow’s Jerk.