All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC/Baby Cow ...and Steve Coogan's alter-ego will also front a new podcast
14/02/2020 … Alan Partridge is returning for a second series of his BBC One show This Time… as well as a new podcast.
...and Russell Kane will teach them
14/02/2020 … Russell Kane is to teach celebrities how to become stand-up comedians in a new Channel 4 show.
Lightning strikes BBC Two's teatime slot
14/02/2020 … Zoe Lyons is to host a new teatime quiz show on BBC Two.
13/02/2020 … Netflix has announced the date Ricky Gervais’s comedy After Life will return.
Second series for Armando Iannucci's sci-fi comedy
13/02/2020 … Armando Iannucci’s space comedy Avenue 5 has been renewed for a second season.
...in a new play written by Steven Moffat
13/02/2020 … Reece Shearsmith is to be reunited with his League of Gentlemen co-star Mark Gatiss in a new play.
© Edwardx/Catherine Harbour/CC BY-SA 4.0 Comic laughs off NME awards controversy
13/02/2020 … Rapper Slowthai has apologised for his ‘shameful’ actions towards Katherine Ryan at the NME awards last night.
© Steve Ullathorne 13/02/2020 … Filming has started on the new BBC Two comedy pilot, Alma’s Not Normal, created by comedian Sophie Willan.
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