All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Eerie scene in Legends Of Chamberlain Heights
28/01/2020 … Comedy Central has pulled an episode of an animated sitcom which depicted Kobe Bryant dying in a helicopter crash.
© marianasbits Comics named for Edinburgh showcases
27/01/2020 … The comedians taking part in this year's Best In Class scheme to champion working-class voices in comedy have been announced.
Michael Sheen and David Tennant show named comedy of the year
27/01/2020 … Good Omens has been named comedy of the year for 2019.
...as a new movie based on the musical is also announced
27/01/2020 … The stage musical version of Mean Girls is being turned back into a movie – as well as heading to London’s West End.
(if you take a particular definition of that term)
27/01/2020 … The BBC says the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special has attracted the biggest audience for any of its TV programmes outside of sporting and national…
27/01/2020 … The stage version of The Good Life, starring the IT Crowd’s Katherine Parkinson as Barbara, has been confirmed.
Ofcom won't take any action against Jo Brand
27/01/2020 … Broadcasting regulator Ofcom as drawn a line under the controversy over Jo Brand’s battery acid joke, finally ruling that it will take no further action.
The 'Brummie Stud' who fell from fame and fortune
27/01/2020 … Brummie comedian Johnny Carroll, a star of The Comedians who later fell on hard times, has died at the age of 78.
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