All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Comedian 'hounds Jewish audience member out of his show'
12/02/2024 … Paul Currie could face legal action after being accused of inciting antisemitic chants against audience members during his comedy show.
...as Russell Kane expands his Hyperactive dates
12/02/2024 … Omid Djalili has announced a new tour – in which he vows to yield to his inner anger.
Bestselling pop science book to be turned into an animation
12/02/2024 … Richard Ayoade is to narrate an animated version of Bill Bryson’s popular science book, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
© Alex Lake 12/02/2024 … Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Delaney are among the celebrities lined up to read Bluey storybooks in a new social media series.
Comic Stewart Lee once called '‘the funniest stand-up I’ve ever seen'
12/02/2024 … Kevin McAleer is to retire from stand-up after 40 years.
© Robyn Von Swank ...as he complains about the lack of income from their old work
12/02/2024 … Eric Idle has exposed a rift in the Pythons, complaining that the troupe’s back catalogue doesn’t bring him as much money as people think.
Comic said she'd had the 'time of my life'
11/02/2024 … Lou Sanders has been eliminated from Dancing On Ice.
Former open mic circuit regular had been ill for a while
11/02/2024 … Darren Maskell, a familiar face on the open mic scene in London and the South East in the late 2000s and early 2010s, has died at the age of 37.
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