© Jenni Walkowiak BBC World Service launches a topical comedy show
Hosted by a Jewish-Palestinian lesbian married couple
19/08/2020 … The BBC World Service is launching a new topical comedy show.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 19 August 2020
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BBC buys Awkwafina's US comedy series
Nora from Queens coming to iPlayer this year
19/08/2020 … BBC Three has brought the rights to US comedy series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens.
Radio 4 commissions tech series from comic Olga Koch
Russian infiltrates the BBC....
19/08/2020 … Radio 4 has signed up Russian-born comedian Olga Koch for her own four-part comedy series.
© ITV Joel Dommett signs up for Supermarket Sweep
Comic to go wild in the aisles
19/08/2020 … Joel Dommett has achieved the pinnacle of stand-up achievement.
The Guardian axes Clare In The Community
Cartoon strip that spawned a sitcom dropped after 25 years
19/08/2020 … The Guardian has axed its Clare In The Community cartoon, which also spawned a long-running Radio 4 comedy, after almost 25 years.
© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Ken Dodd helps build a new theatre
His charity chips in £700,000 to Playhouse North
19/08/2020 … Ken Dodd is helping to build a new theatre from beyond the grave.
Alice Levine to co-host The Museum of Curiosity
As Eddie Izzard, Ian Hislop and Hannah Gadsby appear as guests
19/08/2020 … Alice Levine is to take over as curator on Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity.
Tue 18 August 2020
The world's first chat show on a chemo ward
Dara O Briain is the first guest on Sarah Mills's new YouTube show
18/08/2020 … Comedian and TV producer Sarah Mills has launched the world's first chat show set in a chemotherapy ward.