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07/11/2021 … The best of the week's live comedy.
2021 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 07 November 2021
Sat 06 November 2021
© BBC Anna Thomas wins the BBC New Comedy Award
06/11/2021 … Welsh stand-up Anna Thomas has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.
Fri 05 November 2021
Joe Lycett is to throw a ‘huge queer party’ on Channel 4
90-minute Christmas special commissioned
05/11/2021 … Joe Lycett is to host a ‘huge queer party’ on Channel 4 this Christmas.
Remember when Alan Carr and Lionel Blair saved a man's life
Flashback after Blair dies at 92
05/11/2021 … In honour of Lionel Blair, who died yesterday at the age of 92, we reprint this story from September 21, 2006, in which he and Alan Carr saved a man's life.
Mrs Doubtfire musical comes to the UK
Manchester run for Broadway hit, written by John O’Farrell
05/11/2021 … A musical version of Mrs Doubtfire is coming to the UK next year.
Thu 04 November 2021
Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth tries stand-up
Watch the MP's first bash at comedy
04/11/2021 … Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth performed his first stand-up comedy gig last night.
BBC comedy development producer joins her old bosses
Emily Allen takes a new job Boffola Pictures
04/11/2021 … Boffola Pictures, the production company set up by former BBC comedy chiefs Shane Allen and Kate Daughton, has made its first appointment Emily Allen –…
Early Channel 4 sitcom unearthed after almost 40 years
Crowdfunding drive to get wordless comedy The Optimist released on DVD
04/11/2021 … One of the first sitcoms made for Channel 4 could finally see the light of day again after almost 40 years The Optimist starred comedian and original…