More comedy firms receive bailout help
Including Comedy Store, Hot Water and Leicester Comedy Festival
17/10/2020 … More comedy outfits have received payments from the Government’s £1.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 17 October 2020
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Mick Ferry and Russell Kane to co-host R4 parenting show
Joining Tim Vincent on The Likely Dads
17/10/2020 … Russell Kane and Mick Ferry are to co-present a new Radio 4 series about parenting.
Fri 16 October 2020
© Carla Spreight Rivalries put aside
Liverpool's Hot Water club donates £5k to Manchester's Frog & Bucket
16/10/2020 … Hot Water Comedy Club has donated £5,000 to help a former rival to survive the coronavirus crisis.
Eurydice Dixon's killer could die behind bars
Jaymes Todd loses his final appeal
16/10/2020 … The man who raped and murdered comedian Eurydice Dixon as she walked home from a gig in Melbourne has lost his last appeal.
Taskmaster wins 1.7million viewers for Channel 4
Series especially popular with 16-34 year-olds
16/10/2020 … The first Taskmaster episode on Channel 4 attracted 1.
When Sean Hughes won the Perrier
Rare footage unearthed on the third anniversary of his death
16/10/2020 … Rare footage of Sean Hughes performing in Edinburgh on the year he won the Perrier has been unearthed on the third anniversary of his death.
Who's on the Big Zuu’s Big Eats Christmas special?
Comics reunite with the grime star
16/10/2020 … The guests have been announced for the two Christmas specials of Big Zuu’s Big Eats.
Thu 15 October 2020
© Angst Productions Who's in the next episodes of Mock The Week?
First line-ups for series 19 revealed
15/10/2020 … The line-ups have been announced for the first episodes in the new series of Mock The Week.