Second series for Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!
12/02/2019 … CBBC has ordered a second series of Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! from Beano Studios.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 12 February 2019
Comedy Central revives Crank Yankers
...plus a new late-night show for David Cross
12/02/2019 … America’s Comedy Central is reviving Crank Yankers, in which puppets re-enact wind-up phone calls.
© BBC How bona! Round The Horne named best radio comedy ever
Industry experts pick their top ten
12/02/2019 … Round The Horne has been named the best radio comedy of all time.
Mon 11 February 2019
Leggo builds up to a pun victory
Cornish comic crowned king of wordplay
11/02/2019 … Cornish comedian Colin Leggo has been named this year’s UK Pun Champion after a showdown at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
© BBC BBC Three is back on air
...albeit for three hours a week, as a dedicated strand of BBC One
11/02/2019 … BBC Three is returning to terrestrial TV, three years after it was taken off air.
Mr Bean goes to China
Animated series sold to the world's most populous country
11/02/2019 … The animated adventures of Mr Bean are to be seen in China following a new deal.
Chris Ramsey to launch a podcast with wife Rosie
Recorded in their South Shields living room.
11/02/2019 … Chris Ramsey is to make a new podcast with his wife Rosie.
© UKTV Sally Phillips to star in interrailing comedy
11/02/2019 … Sally Phillips is to star in a new comedy movie about three middle-aged women recreating the interrailing adventures of their youth.