Revealed: The best-selling Laurel & Hardy films on DVD
...as Stan & Ollie enters the weekly sales chart
15/05/2019 … The Stan & Ollie biopic is the highest new entry on this week’s official film sales chart.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 15 May 2019
Louis CK's UK gigs dropped after protests
Backlash 'made the shows untenable'
15/05/2019 … Louis CK has cancelled his two UK shows less than 24 hours after they were announced.
Comedy club punter calls the cops over a joke
'It made us very uncomfortable,' he says in 911 call
15/05/2019 … A comedy club punter called police after a stand-up made a joke about terrorism that made him feel ‘uncomfortable’.
© BBC Dame Edna makes a TV comeback
BBC One orders a one-off special set on her 'luxury yacht'
15/05/2019 … BBC One has ordered a one-off Dame Edna Everage special that will take place aboard her ‘luxury yacht’.
© Caroline Bonarde Ucci/CC BY-SA 3.0 Judi Dench to star in Blithe Spirit movie
15/05/2019 … Judi Dench, Dan Stevens and Isla Fisher are to star in a new movie version of Noel Coward’s comedy Blithe Spirit.
US comedian Tim Conway dies at 85
Co-star on The Carol Burnett Show
15/05/2019 … Veteran US comedian Tim Conway, best known for his co-starring on The Carol Burnett Show for more than a decade has died at 85.
Miles Jupp quits the News Quiz
Comic stands down after four years
15/05/2019 … Miles Jupp is to step down as host of The News Quiz at the end of the current series.
Tue 14 May 2019
UK dates for Louis CK
Disgraced comic announces two intimate gigs
14/05/2019 … UPDATE: These shows have now been cancelled - read more here Disgraced comedian Louis CK is heading to the UK for two intimate dates next week.