Breaking Bard
Royal Shakespeare Company hosts a comedy festival
07/06/2019 … The Royal Shakespeare Company is to host a comedy festival this autumn, featuring the likes of Adam Kay, Bridget Christie, Rory Bremner and Milton Jones.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 07 June 2019
BBC orders THREE more series of Not Going Out
...making a total of 13 for Lee Mack's sitcom
07/06/2019 … The BBC has ordered three more series of Not Going Out – taking it into its 13th season.
Thu 06 June 2019
Wilderness Festival announces its 2019 comedy line-up
Coming to Oxfordshire in August
06/06/2019 … Oxfordshire’s Wilderness Festival has announced its comedy bill.
© C4 Harry Hill to host Junior Bake Off
After making such an impact in the GBBO tent last year
06/06/2019 … Harry Hill is to host Junior Bake Off – having made such a splash on the celebrity version of the show last year.
© C4 Comedians to star in new ‘extreme bluffing’ series
06/06/2019 … Up-and-coming comedians are to take part in a new ‘extreme bluffing’ series for E4, provisionally called Pants On Fire.
© BBC/Leopard Pictures/Matt Burlem First look at Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge
Detectorist star adapting the classic stories for the BBC
06/06/2019 … Here's the first image of Mackenzie Crook as scarecrow Worzel Gummidge in a new BBC series based on the children’s books.
Michael McIntyre to play New York's Radio City Music Hall
6,000-seater is only his second ever US gig
06/06/2019 … Michael McIntyre is to play one of the most famous venues in New York next year.
Espionage drama has a happy ending
Every Fringe show to be rehomed after venue's closure
06/06/2019 … Every Edinburgh Fringe show that was made homeless by the sudden closure of the Espionage nightclub has been given a new home.