Comedy festival wins grant to target older people
22/01/2020 … Leicester Comedy Festival has received a £20,000 grant to create more shows for older people.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 22 January 2020
Terry Jones dies at 77
Four years after his dementia diagnosis
22/01/2020 … Michael Palin, Eric Idle and John Cleese are among those who have paid tribute to their Monty Python colleague Terry Jones after he died at the age of…
© Andrew Perry Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer heads to the West End
Comedian's 'terrifying' show then transfers to New York
22/01/2020 … Richard Gadd’s acclaimed one-man show Baby Reindeer is heading to London’s West End.
© BBC Comedy Central orders a series from transgender comic Jordan Gray
Sketches set in a supermarket night shift
22/01/2020 … Transgender stand-up Jordan Gray has landed her own series of shorts of Comedy Central.
Touts offer Dave Chappelle tickets – for £417
Instant bid to cash in on intimate London gigs
22/01/2020 … Greedy touts are already asking more than £400 for tickets to see Dave Chappelle in London.
The Royal Family becomes a laughing stock...
New animated comedy with Orlando Bloom and Tom Hollander
22/01/2020 … Orlando Bloom, Tom Hollander and Alan Cumming are to lend their voices to a new animated comedy series about the Royal Family.
© BBC Little Britain set for a TV comeback
Walliams and Lucas encouraged by reaction to radio Brexit special
22/01/2020 … More Little Britain is on the way – 12 years after the last TV series.
Comedy stars to judge literary award
Comedy Women in Print celebrates funny female writers
22/01/2020 … Comedy performers Joanna Scanlan, Lolly Adefope and Pauline McLynn have joined the judges for the UK’s only award celebrating witty female writers.