All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Steve Ullathorne Following in the footsteps of some fine comedy talent
25/08/2022 … Joshua Bethania has won this year’s’s So You Think You’re Funny? comedy competition at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© Richard Szwejkowski/CC BY-SA 2.0 Festival and schemes to foster local talen
25/08/2022 … Cardiff has been named as the BBC’s City of Comedy for 2023.
© BBC For a new BBC comedy set in 1990s Manchester
25/08/2022 … Car Share writer Paul Coleman is to reunite with Sian Gibson for a new BBC One comedy.
© Tiger Aspect Guz Khan's comedy back after three years
25/08/2022 … Guz Khan’s comedy Man Like Mobeen is to return for a fourth series, the BBC has announced.
25/08/2022 … Catherine Tate is to star in a new BBC One comedy about the black sheep of a fictional Royal Family who is given the job of reigning over Australia.
Transgender comic takes the 2m tall prize from Nextup
25/08/2022 … She has been nominated for the most important prize at the Edinburgh Fringe – now Jordan Gray has won the biggest.
How To Date Billy Walsh stars include Nick Frost, Guz Khan and Lucy Punch
25/08/2022 … Nick Frost, Guz Khan and Lucy Punch are among the stars of a new British high school romcom movie now being filmed.
© Simon Cain/Facebook Simon Cain loses two months' work after stage attack
25/08/2022 … A comedian has lost two months’ work after a violent heckler attacked him on stage, breaking his leg.
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