All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Celebs tape video urging take-up of Covid jab
18/02/2021 … Romesh Ranganathan, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Adil Ray are among the celebrities fronting a new video campaign to encourage minority groups to take up the…
© BBC Shooting under way on Greg Davies sitcom
18/02/2021 … Helena Bonham Carter, David Mitchell and Stephanie Cole have joined the cast of Greg Davies’s new BBC One comedy The Cleaner.
C4 series for My Dad Wrote A Porno podcaster
18/02/2021 … She has been talking about bad sex for years as a co-creator of the comedy podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno.
18/02/2021 … Frank Skinner has written a book of prayers, to be published in April.
Montreal's festival-within-a-festival goes virtual
17/02/2021 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival will stream all its industry sessions online this year.
16/02/2021 … Whoopi Goldberg has pulled out of the London stage version of her musical Sister Act, after it was postponed for a second time.
Comedy-drama with Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco
16/02/2021 … Sky has today bought the rights to The Flight Attendant, a US comedy-drama starring Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco.
© BBC Big success for online play reading service
16/02/2021 … More than 26,000 students logged on to the read through of Macbeth featuring Joe Lycett’s Shakespearean debut.
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