All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Netflix Moving from Netflix to Comedy Central
07/07/2020 … America's Comedy Central has signed up stand-up John Mulaney to produce two more of his Sack Lunch Bunch children's musical comedy specials.
Collection of one-liners out this autumn
07/07/2020 … Gary Delaney has signed a deal to publish some of his best one-liners in a new joke book.
Shagged. Married. Annoyed now hits the road in 2021
06/07/2020 … Chris and Rosie Ramsey have rescheduled their live Shagged.
© Suzy Hazelwood/Pexels Seven in ten workers furloughed
06/07/2020 … The full impact of the lockdown on the live arts and entertainment scene has been revealed in new research.
06/07/2020 … Funny Women have revealed the longlists for their comedy writing and comedy shorts awards.
© Richard Goldschmidt/CC BY-SA 3.0 Comedians eligible for £1,000 emergency grants
06/07/2020 … Netflix has donated £500,000 to give emergency help to comedians, actors and offstage workers left without an income during lockdown.
© Andrew Hurley/CC BY-SA 2.0 Tony Hadley distances himself from the Kemps' Spandau Ballet mockumentary
06/07/2020 … Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley has distanced himself from the BBC mockumentary about his former bandmates.
06/07/2020 … Jack Dee is writing a new book in which he ‘solves’ his fans’ problems.
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