Applications open for Best In Class 2025
Helping working-class comics play the Edinburgh Fringe
20/12/2024 … Applications have opened for next year’s Best in Class scheme to help working-class comics play the Edinburgh Fringe.
2024 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 20 December 2024
© BBC/So Television/PA Media James Corden and Ruth Jones write Gavin & Stacey book
Promising 'fresh insight' into how it came to be
20/12/2024 … James Corden and Ruth Jones are writing the story of Gavin and Stacey, for publication next year.
Thu 19 December 2024
Gavin & Stacey's success is 'a lesson in patience’
James Corden and Ruth Jones speak at preview screening
19/12/2024 … James Corden says the success of Gavin & Stacey has been ‘a lesson in patience’ in a media landscape obsessed with speed and the next big thing.
Radio 4 renews The Naked Week
Andrew Hunter Murray's satirical show to return
19/12/2024 … Radio 4’s new Friday Night comedy The Naked Week has been commissioned for a second series.
© C4/Avalon Taskmaster series 19 to premiere in New York
US audience will see the show first, with line-up set to include a big-name American
19/12/2024 … The 19th season of Taskmaster will be launched in the US before it is seen in Britain.
© GB News GB News drops Mark Dolan
Ex-comic 'permanently relieved' of his duties
19/12/2024 … Mark Dolan has been axed by GB News.
Wed 18 December 2024
Body found in search for BGT comedian
Martyn Crofts had been missing since Monday
18/12/2024 … A body has been discovered in the hunt for a comedian who appeared on Britain’s Got Talent.
© Sky UK / Ranga Bee Another travelogue for Romesh Ranganathan
Comic 'fact-checks' his stand-up in new Sky series
18/12/2024 … Romesh Ranganathan has made another travelogue series, shot alongside performances of his stand-up show Hustle.