New sitcom from Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper
I Hate You heading to Channel 4
25/08/2021 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new sitcom from Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper.
2021 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 25 August 2021
Peter Kay records The Sound Of Laughter audiobook
15 years after his memoirs were published!
25/08/2021 … Peter Kay has recorded an audio version of his autobiography The Sound of Laughter – 15 years after it was published.
Tue 24 August 2021
Edinburgh Fringe launches £7.5m fundraising drive
Festival's plans to build back better
24/08/2021 … Organisers of the Edinburgh Fringe have launched a £7.
© Netflix/Matt Holyoak Charlie Brooker returns to Netflix
British comics to feature in Attack Of The Hollywood Clichés!
24/08/2021 … Charlie Brooker has made a new Netflix special mocking hackneyed movie tropes.
© Avalon/UKTV Lolly Adefope and Wanda Sykes join Chivalry
Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani's #MeToo comedy-drama
24/08/2021 … Lolly Adefope, Wanda Sykes and Sienna Miller have joined the cast of Steve Coogan’s new Channel 4 comedy-drama Chivalry.
© Matt Crockett Joe Lycett to host BBC life-drawing event
24/08/2021 … Joe Lycett is to present a two-hour live life-drawing session on the BBC next month.
Mon 23 August 2021
© UKTV Taskmaster sets series 13 recording dates
Plus Champions of Champions special
23/08/2021 … The recording dates of the 13th series of Taskmaster have been set – including the next Champion Of Champions special.
© BBC/Hungry McBear Michael McIntyre exports The Wheel to the US
23/08/2021 … Michael McIntyre is exporting his BBC game show The Wheel to the US – with him as host.