Who's judging the 2022 Edinburgh Comedy Awards?
14/07/2022 … The panel deciding the winners of Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards at this year's Fringe has been unveiled.
2022 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 14 July 2022
Channel 4 appoints Andy Brereton to comedy commissioning team
Credits include Murder in Successville and Murder They Hope
14/07/2022 … Channel 4 has appointed Andy Brereton as senior commissioning editor for comedy.
Sally Phillips starts work on ‘Best In Show with cars’
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,…
US remake of Friday Night Dinner confirmed
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.
Wed 13 July 2022
Eshaan Akbar announces first tour
The Pretender hits the road in 2023
13/07/2022 … Eshaan Akbar has announced his first solo tour, The Pretender, for 2023.
Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed up for Emmys – again
More acclaim for Ted Lasso duo
13/07/2022 … Nick Mohammed and Brett Goldstein have both been nominated for an Emmy award – again.
Jo Caulfield writes a memoir about her late sister
Annie was an author and comedy writer who died in 2016
13/07/2022 … Jo Caulfield has written a memoir about her sister, the author and comedy writer Annie, who died of cancer in 2016 at the age of 57.
Mo Gilligan to host BBC One music game show
UK version of Jimmy Fallon's That's My Jam
13/07/2022 … Mo Gilligan is to host a new music-based gameshow, That’s My Jam, for BBC One.