All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© David Woolfall/CC BY-SA 3.0 MP in racism storm won't face the satirists
30/09/2022 … Labour MP Rupa Huq has pulled out of Have I Got News For You after causing a storm for describing Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as ‘superficially’ black.
Only episode to feature Peter Sellers will now get a Radio 4 airing
30/09/2022 … An episode of Hancock’s Half Hour that has been lost for 67 years is to get an airing on Radio 4.
As part of his new BBC in-depth interview series
30/09/2022 … Louis Theroux is to present an in-depth profile of Katherine Ryan for his new BBC series.
© Comedy Central Comic wants to return to stand-up
30/09/2022 … Trevor Noah is stepping back from The Daily Show after seven years.
...as do Zoe Lyons and Simon Brodkin
30/09/2022 … John Kearns, Zoe Lyons and Simon Brodkin have all announced new tours for 2023.
30/09/2022 … Character comedian Lorna Rose Treen was a double winner at the Funny Women awards last night.
As original sitcom episodes are colourised
29/09/2022 … Jack Dee is to front a two-hour retrospective documentary celebrating the work of Tony Hancock.
© UNclimatechange/CC BY-SA 2.0 About soldiers who become celebrities after they are taken hostage
29/09/2022 … Sean Penn is to star in a new ITV comedy about a group of soldiers taken hostage.
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