Richard Ayoade to host the Baftas again
With Gbemisola Ikumelo fronting the craft awards
20/04/2021 … Richard Ayoade is to host the Bafta TV awards for a second year.
2021 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 20 April 2021
Victoria Wood’s unseen sketches to be published
'They feel like comedy’s Dead Sea Scrolls'
20/04/2021 … Eighty of Victoria Wood’s previously unseen scripts are to be released this autumn.
Underbelly announces a new London festival
The upside-down purple cow is back
20/04/2021 … Underbelly has announced a second London pop-up venue this summer, featuring its familiar upside-down purple cow.
Mon 19 April 2021
Rob Beckett writes his memoirs
Comedian has a 'productive lockdown'
19/04/2021 … Rob Beckett has joined the long line of comedians publishing a memoir this year.
Radio 4 confirms air date for Jamie MacDonald stand-up series
Life On The Blink starts next month
19/04/2021 … Radio 4 has confirmed an air date for Jamie MacDonald’s new stand-up show, Life On The Blink.
© Ricky Gervais/Twitter Filming starts on After Life series 3
Ricky Gervais tweets from the set
19/04/2021 … Ricky Gervais has started filming the third series of After Life.
Courteney Cox to star in Sharon Horgan comedy
Her character in Shining Vale is either depressed... or possessed by a demon
19/04/2021 … Courteney Cox is to star in a new paranormal comedy from Sharon Horgan.
Sun 18 April 2021
© BBC / Avalon Blade of glory
Don Rodolfo and the rest of the week's top comedy on TV and radio
18/04/2021 … The week’s best comedy on TV and radio, in another quiet week for the genre… Sunday April 18 THE CONFESSIONAL: Stephen Mangan hosts a new chat…