Radio Times 'bookazine' to mark Monty Python at 50
With exclusive interviews and photographs
07/08/2019 … The Radio Times is to release a special 'bookazine' to mark 50 years of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 07 August 2019
Fundraising drive for comic who nearly died three times
Circuit rallies to help pay for Katerina Vrana's rehabilitation
07/08/2019 … The comedy world is rallying around a fellow stand-up who almost died after perforating her intestine.
© BBC Still Game was the most-watched show in Scotland last year
Comedy attracted one in four of the entire population
07/08/2019 … An episode of Still Game was the most-watched TV programme in Scotland last year.
'Institutionalised paranoia has corrupted us'
Chris Morris talks about his new film, as a trailer is released
07/08/2019 … Chris Morris has spoken about his new film, The Day Shall Come, as the first trailer has been released.
Nicholas Parsons misses another Just A Minute taping
Comic, 95, said to be suffering from a bad back
07/08/2019 … Nicholas Parsons missed a recording of Radio 4’s Just A Minute last night after falling ill.
Atlanta renewed for a fourth season
Donald Glover's comedy to return
07/08/2019 … Donald Glover's comedy series Atlanta has been renewed for a fourth series.
Tue 06 August 2019
© John Fleming Malcolm Hardee Awards make a comeback
Celebrating anarchic spirit at the Edinburgh Fringe
06/08/2019 … The Malcolm Hardee Awards are being revived at the Edinburgh Fringe after a year off.
© BBC Bafta to honour Steve Coogan
After playing Stan Laurel he wins the Charlie Chaplin award
06/08/2019 … Steve Coogan is to receive this year’s Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy from Bafta.