BBC rejects complaints over drag queen's Belgrano joke
'Viewers would know what to expect'
22/04/2020 … Complaints that a joke about the sinking of the Belgrano went too far have been rejected by the BBC’s standards unit.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 22 April 2020
BBC has another bite at What We Do In The Shadows
Fangs again! Broadcaster buys series two of vampire comedy
22/04/2020 … BBC Two has snapped up the rights to the second series of vampire houseshare sitcom What We Do In The Shadows.
© Netflix Blooming brilliant!
Natasia Demetriou to host Netflix's The Big Flower Fight with Vic Reeves
22/04/2020 … Natasia Demetriou is to co-host new Netflix series The Big Flower Fight with Vic Reeves, the streaming service has announced today.
© BBC/Objective Fiction Matt Berry to make more BBC Two mockumentaries
Four Squeamish About… episodes ordered
22/04/2020 … BBC Two has commissioned Matt Berry to make a new series of offbeat mockumentaries.
© BBC BBC to showcase comics in isolation
New shorts on dealing with lockdown
22/04/2020 … Comics including Bob Mortimer, Kerry Godliman and Tom Allen are to take part in a new series of BBC Two comedy shorts shot in isolation.
Charlie Brooker to make an Antiviral Wipe
22/04/2020 … Charlie Brooker is to make his first Wipe show in more than three years to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
© BBC / Expectation Alma’s Not Normal gets a full series
BBC Two orders Sophie Willan's sitcom after hit pilot
22/04/2020 … Sophie Willan’s sitcom Alma’s Not Normal has been commissioned for a full series, following the success of a pilot earlier this month.
Tue 21 April 2020
Comedy Store goes online
Footage from old gigs to be streamed
21/04/2020 … The Comedy Store is to stream footage from its archives for the first time in a bid to generate income during the lockdown.