Writers Guild honours the best storytellers of 2018
Including Sarah Kendall and Mackenzie Crook
14/01/2019 … Sarah Kendall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mackenzie Crook have all bee honoured at tonight Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 14 January 2019
© Netflix Revealed: Cast and first images from Ricky Gervais's Afterlife
New comedy coming to Netflix on March
14/01/2019 … Ricky Gervais’s new comedy series AfterLife will launch globally on March 8, Netflix has announced.
Stan & Ollie tops UK box office
Nudging The Favourite into second place
14/01/2019 … Stan & Ollie has topped the box office charts in UK cinemas in its opening weekend.
Rick and Morty comes to Channel 4
Broadcaster snaps up hundreds of hours of Adult Swim programmes
14/01/2019 … Animated comedy Rick and Morty is coming to free-to-air television in the UK for the first time.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the Critics' Choice – again
14/01/2019 … The Marvelous Mrs.
...And so I got on the bus
Comedians to act as coach tour guides in new Comedy Central series
14/01/2019 … Joel Dommett, Iain Stirling, Tom Allen, Suzi Ruffell, Darren Harriott and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are all going on a bus trip back to their hometowns for a new Comedy…
Sun 13 January 2019
© Petr Novák / Creative Commons Chris Morris returns to satirising the war on terror
The Day Shall Come coming soon
13/01/2019 … Chris Morris's new film, The Day Shall Come, revisits Four Lions's satire on the war on terrorism and draws upon the life of Malcolm X, Chortle can reveal.
Mrs Brown's Boys creator writes an Army comedy
Set amid peacekeeping forces in Lebanon
13/01/2019 … Mrs Brown's Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll is developing a comedy about Irish army peacekeepers for the BBC.