All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© University of Kent 'He has bought shame and disrespect to our country'
16/07/2022 … Mark Thomas has been awarded an honorary degree by Kent University – and used his acceptance speech to launch a savage, impassioned attack on Boris Johnson.
With Freema Agyeman and Lily Allen
15/07/2022 … Freema Agyeman and Lily Allen have begun filming the new Sky comedy Dreamland in Margate.
15/07/2022 … Les Dennis is to join the cast of the West End musical version of Only Fools and Horses, it has been announced today.
© Rhod Gilbert/Facebook Comic reveals diagnosis after calling off tour dates
14/07/2022 … Rhod Gilbert has revealed that he has cancer – and is being treated at a hospital he has supported for more than a decade.
14/07/2022 … The panel deciding the winners of Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards at this year's Fringe has been unveiled.
Credits include Murder in Successville and Murder They Hope
14/07/2022 … Channel 4 has appointed Andy Brereton as senior commissioning editor for comedy.
Star set to direct the dark comedy Classic with its writer Tony Pitts
14/07/2022 … Pre-production work has started on Sally Phillips’s directorial debut, a dark comedy set in the world of classic car enthusiasts The movie is called Classic,…
It'll be called Dinner With The Parents and air on Amazon Freevee
14/07/2022 … The American remake of Friday Night Dinner is to be called Dinner With The Parents and air on Amazon’s Freevee platform, it has been revealed.
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