© BBC Studios Seventh series for Two Doors Down
21/02/2023 … The BBC has ordered a seventh series of hit sitcom Two Doors Down – and promoted it to a BBC One slot.
2023 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 21 February 2023
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Latitude announces its 2023 comedy headliners
21/02/2023 … Ed Gamble, Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe and Romesh Ranganathan has been announced as the headliners of this year’s Latitude Festival.
© SK/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Fringe city's main newspaper all-but ignores the festival
Adelaide Advertiser used to publish hundreds of reviews. Not this year.
21/02/2023 … It is the world’s biggest Fringe festival after Edinburgh – but residents of Adelaide in South Australia would barely know it was taking place if…
© Condé Nast (through Vogue Taiwan)/CC BY-SA 3.0 New Channel 4 comedy for Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan
Written by her real-life friend
21/02/2023 … Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan is to star in a new Channel 4 comedy-drama about female friendships – written by a real-life pal.
Mon 20 February 2023
Bloody funny! It's the Cannibal Comedian
Gruesome new horror flick set in the world of stand-up
20/02/2023 … Stand-up might have a reputation for attracting society’s outsiders… but what about a psychopathic cannibal? That’s the premise of a new, low-budget…
Sun 19 February 2023
Richard Belzer dies at 78
Comic became known as John Munch on Homicide and Law And Order
19/02/2023 … Richard Belzer, the comedian who became known as hardbitten cop John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law and Order SVU has died at the…
Meet David Sedaris (though you might be pretty well acquainted by now)
The week's best comedy on TV and radio
19/02/2023 … It’s not the strongest selection of new comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week, but here goes… Sunday February 19 WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS…
Grace Campbell kicks off her ‘fiery' tour
19/02/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 4,778 events Chortle currently has listed.