All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© C4 How he turned his life around 'through the redemptive power of dick jokes'
21/05/2021 … Jimmy Carr is to publish his memoirs this autumn, charting his change from a boring corporate life to ‘fake-toothed donkey-laugh plastic-haired comedy mannequin’,…
20/05/2021 … The line-up has been announced for the 12th series of Taskmaster, just as the series 11 champion was crowned.
Postponed gig set for next month
20/05/2021 … The finalists have been announced in this year’s Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Competition.
© Sophia Spring 20/05/2021 … ITV has commissioned a four-part adaptation of Graham Norton’s bestselling debut novel, Holding, to be directed by Kathy Burke Conleth Hill will take…
MP calls for comic's Desert Island Discs to be axed in antisemitism row
20/05/2021 … An MP has called for the BBC to axe Alexei Sayle’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday, accusing the the comedian of ‘excusing antisemitism’.
© Shutterstock New collaboration with Andy Nyman
20/05/2021 … The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson is co-writing two new thrillers blending magic and espionage.
Another feather in comedian's cap
20/05/2021 … Joel Dommett is to host this year’s National Television Awards, it has been announced.
© Timothy M. Moore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Comedian also worked on In Living Color and Chappelle’s Show
19/05/2021 … Paul Mooney, the writer and actor who helped Richard Pryor create some of his most provocative work, has died at the age of 79.
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