Stewart Francis performs his last ever stand-up gig
01/12/2019 … The best of the week's live comedy.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 01 December 2019
The dark side of Tom Allen
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
01/12/2019 … It’s a relatively quiet week for new comedy on TV but here are some broadcasting highlights, mainly on radio… Monday December 2 DAVE GORMAN: TERMS…
Comic demands fans sign a $1m secrecy contract to see his shows
Pete Davidson insists on an NDA for his stand-up
01/12/2019 … Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson is demanding fans sign a contract not to leak details of his stand-up set – on pain of a $1million penalty.
Sat 30 November 2019
Comic loses appeal over 'fine' for joke about disabled child
...but Mike Ward won't have to compensate the mother of the victim of his gags
30/11/2019 … Canadian comedian Mike Ward has lost his bid to overturn a £20,000 penalty for making bad-taste jokes about a disabled singer.
On the run from Big Data
30/11/2019 … The week's comedy on demand Max & Ivan: Fugitives An eight-part comedy thriller, this podcast features Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez as two lowly…
Fri 29 November 2019
Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi to write feminist books
For a new young adults collection
29/11/2019 … Shappi Khorsandi and Jenny Eclair are to write books for a new feminist publishing collection aimed at young adults.
Iain Stirling to star in ITV2 sitcom
He co-wrote Buffering with fellow comic Steve Bugeja
29/11/2019 … Iain Stirling is making a sitcom for ITV2, Chortle can reveal.
© BBC Jeremy Hardy's best writing to be published
On the first anniversary of his death
29/11/2019 … Some of Jeremy Hardy’s best writing is to be published in a new anthology.