Comics up for radio's top Aria awards
16/01/2020 … People Just Do Nothing, Chris Ramsey and John Robins and Elis James are among the comics shortlisted for the most prestigious awards in radio.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 16 January 2020
Wed 15 January 2020
A little less conversation
Tim Vine drops the stand-up to tour as Plastic Elvis
15/01/2020 … Tim Vine is taking his Elvis Presley tribute show on the road.
Spa is just the tonic...
Comedy club expands into Midlands town
15/01/2020 … Just The Tonic comedy club is launching a new venture in Leamington Spa.
© BBC/Zeppotron BBC renews The Ranganation
15/01/2020 … BBC Two has ordered a second series of Romesh Ranganathan’s topical comedy show, The Ranganation.
From Mrs Brown's Boys to the Arab-Israeli conflict
Brendan O’Carroll pilots a peacekeepers' comedy for BBC One
15/01/2020 … As the creator of Mrs Brown’s Boys, he is not known for the most subtle of comic touches.
Tue 14 January 2020
US remake of People Just Do Nothing is axed
Amazon decides not to make the series
14/01/2020 … The American remake of People Just Do Nothing has been axed.
Dapper Laughs is doing Time
(It's a new stage play in London)
14/01/2020 … Controversial comedian Dapper Laughs is becoming an actor.
A write honour...
Sandi Toksvig fronts Channel 4 literary series
14/01/2020 … Sandi Toksvig is to front an ‘empowering and uplifting’ two-part series about illiteracy.