All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Comedy kingpins to close their production company
07/04/2019 … Together they have created such comedy hits as Anchorman, Step Brothers and The Other Guys – but Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have now decided to call…
...and the rest of the week's comedy on demand
06/04/2019 … The week’s best comedy on demand.
Scottish comic jailed over campaigns of abuse
06/04/2019 … Scottish comedian John David McDade, who goes by the stage name JD Brown, has been jailed for four years and three months for his campaign of abuse against two women.
© BBC 05/04/2019 … Fleabag will not be returning for a third series, one of its stars has revealed.
05/04/2019 … John Quarmby, who played the unimpressed health inspector in Fawlty Towers, had died at the age of 89.
© BBC 05/04/2019 … Alan Partridge's forthcoming series is a Simon Schama-style historical documentary of Britain, Chortle can reveal.
Demands of stand-up prove too much
05/04/2019 … Rhod Gilbert is leaving BBC Radio Wales after 13 years to return to stand-up.
'A lost soul who has finally found peace'
05/04/2019 … Roy 'Chubby' Brown is in mourning after his son died at the age of 45.
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