All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Button Hall Productions Image Type: Portraits Programme Maker: Monumental But Pin duo miss out on breakthrough award
19/07/2021 … Ghosts has won this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Award for comedy.
With new categories for under-18s and digital comedian
19/07/2021 … Entries have opened for the revived BBC New Comedy Awards, which will culminate in a final on BBC One.
Ian Boldsworth and Barry Dodds film also out on demand
19/07/2021 … The movie spin-off from Ian Boldsworth and Barry Dodds' ParaPod will finally hit cinemas on September 27.
Creator Susan Nickson 'in talks with the BBC'
19/07/2021 … The creator of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps is in talks with the BBC about bringing it back.
© Pierre Rosa / Pixabay Concerns hit reopening of comedy venues and theatres
19/07/2021 … More than half the country still feels uncomfortable about going to a live show as so-called ‘Freedom Day’ comes around.
Soho Theatre drops plans for Chris McGlade's run
19/07/2021 … Comedian Chris McGlade has complained that he has been cancelled after his show was ‘banned’ from the Soho Theatre.
Star of The Comedians and Name That Tune
18/07/2021 … Comedian Tom O'Connor has died at the age of 81, his family has said.
© BBC Retrospective of Ruby's interviews
18/07/2021 … BBC Two is planning a retrospective of Ruby Wax’s 1990s interviews.
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