All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
...not 13 years of slogging around the US clubs
11/10/2020 … Gina Yashere has told how she slogged away around the American comedy circuit for years - only to get her big break when a Hollywood bigwig googled ‘Nigerian…
Matt Lucas got the Bake Off gig after Noel Fielding dreamt it, he reveals to Jimmy Carr
11/10/2020 … Matt Lucas got his Bake-Off job thanks to a dream Noel Fielding had.
© Channel 4 Taskmaster comes to Channel 4 and the rest of the week's top TV comedy
11/10/2020 … The week's best comedy on TV and radio.
11/10/2020 … The best of the week’s live comedy.
© ITV 10/10/2020 … Comedy musician Jon Courtenay has won this year's Britain’s Got Talent final.
Honour for services to charity and entertainment
09/10/2020 … The founder of the Comedy School, which uses stand-up for social good, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours.
...and writer Graham Linehan is furious
09/10/2020 … Graham Linehan has reacted angrily after Channel 4 removed an episode of the IT Crowd that has been widely condemned as transphobic.
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