All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Pioneers challenge the popular image
07/05/2019 … The popular image of the Comedy Store being at the vanguard of the alternative comedy revolution has been challenged at a conference to mark 40 years since the groundbreaking…
At the Hackney Empire next month
07/05/2019 … Paul Chowdhry is to record a new stand-up special The Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo comedian will tape his set over two shows at the Hackney Empire on…
© Netflix 07/05/2019 … Ricky Gervais has finished the first draft for a second series of After Life.
Second series for C5 travelogue
06/05/2019 … Susan Calman is to make a second series of her Channel 5 travelogue.
Comedian returns to Resonance FM
06/05/2019 … Daniel Kitson has returned to radio presenting.
How newspapers used 'political correctness' to rubbish alternative comedy
05/05/2019 … Much of the newspaper coverage of alternative comedy in the 1980s and 1990s saw it as an ‘unwelcome revolution’ tied in with humourless political correctness,…
That's Tony Hawks the comedian, not Tony Hawk the skateboarder
05/05/2019 … Comedian Tony Hawks has a new book cashing in on the fact he’s always being confused for American skateboarder Tony Hawk.
The best of the week's live comedy
05/05/2019 … The week's best live comedy.
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