© ITV/Monkey Fourth series for Don’t Hate The Playaz
ITV recommissions hip-hop comedy panel show
26/07/2022 … ITV2 has commissioned a fourth series of its hip-hop comedy panel show Don’t Hate The Playaz.
2022 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 26 July 2022
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Brits make Montreal festival's tips for the top
Catherine Bohart, Rhys James, Sophie Duker and Suzi Ruffell make Just For Laughs New Faces showcase
26/07/2022 … Catherine Bohart, Rhys James, Sophie Duker and Suzi Ruffell have made the cut for one of the major international showcases for breakout comedians.
Mon 25 July 2022
Comedy Walking Tour podcast launched
25/07/2022 … Comedian Sam Fletcher is launching a new podcast – mixing walking tours with ‘silly’ interviews.
Sun 24 July 2022
© Ralf Lotys/CC BY-SA 4.0 A very good sign!
Edinburgh's Free Festival shows to offer BSL interpretation for the first time
24/07/2022 … The Laughing Horse’s Free Festival is to offer British Sign Language translation for the first time.
The Skewer goes live
Festival gig for Jon Holmes's Radio 4 show, and the rest of the week's live comedy
24/07/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Comedians to take part in the Commonwealth Games*
24/07/2022 … Comedians Darren Harriott, Russell Kane, Tom Rosenthal and Suzi Ruffell are to take to part in a celebrity version of the Commonwealth Games.
James Acaster, Jamali Maddix and Matt Forde take British Podcast Awards
...but the night belongs to Dame Deborah James,
24/07/2022 … James Acaster and Jamali Maddix took home gongs at the British podcast awards last night.
Fri 22 July 2022
Adrian Edmondson to star as Scrooge
22/07/2022 … Adrian Edmondson is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Christmas Carol.