BBC launches a panel show just for comedians of colour
Desiree Burch to host Bameshow
10/11/2020 … Radio 4 is making its first panel show featuring only comedians of colour.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 10 November 2020
Tim Key writes a new book
Poems and conversations to be unveiled at next week's Chortle Comedy Book Festival
10/11/2020 … Tim Key has written a new book during lockdown, to be unveiled at next week’s Chortle Comedy Book Festival.
A real comedy pioneer
Unearthed: The first known recording of a comedian broadcast in the UK
10/11/2020 … Here is the oldest surviving recording of a comedian that aired in the UK.
Mon 09 November 2020
Could you write the next Cabin Pressure?
Hunt on for new radio comedy scripts
09/11/2020 … Independent production company Pozzitive is on the lookout for new comedy shows to develop.
Another call-out for Bravo Two Charlies
BBC Radio Wales orders third series
09/11/2020 … BBC Radio Wales has ordered a third series of its police comedy, Bravo Two Charlies.
Comic writes spoof Boris Johnson diaries
Nathan Cassidy imagines PM's recovery from Covid
09/11/2020 … Stand-up Nathan Cassidy has written an imaginary three-month diary from Boris Johnson, describing his recovery from Covid.
His churlished memory will always allied with us
'Master of the Malaprop' Norm Crosby dies at 93
09/11/2020 … Veteran American comedian Norm Crosby has died at the age of 93.
Sun 08 November 2020
© BBC BBC Wales renews The Tuckers
Plus full series for sketch show Age Of Outrage
08/11/2020 … BBC Wales has commissioned two more series of its sitcom The Tuckers, about an extended family of ‘loveable rogues’ with dubious ways of making a living.