© Matt Crockett Angela Barnes announces 2025 tour
26/09/2024 … Angela Barnes has announced a 2025 tour, entitled Angst.
2024 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 26 September 2024
© Matt Crockett 
Fourth Paddington movie in the pipeline
26/09/2024 … Paddington is to star in his fourth family-friendly comedy – as well as a TV series, the rights-owners have confirmed.
Wed 25 September 2024
Janey Godley enters end-of-life care
'I don't know how long I've got left – I'm not a TikTok'
25/09/2024 … Janey Godley has announced that she has gone into end-of-life palliative care, saying: ‘I don’t know how long I’ve got left.
Emmanuel Sonubi makes his New York debut
Performing at New York’s Soho Playhouse
25/09/2024 … Emmanuel Sonubi is to make US debut at New York’s Soho Playhouse in November.
Karen Dunbar announces Scottish tour
25/09/2024 … Karen Dunbar has announced her third tour since 2023 – packing 24 shows into 23 venues in just one month.
Amy Gledhill and Harriet Kemsley launch 'single ladies' podcast
Plus other new shows from Holly Burn and Poppy Hilstead
25/09/2024 … Newly divorced comedian Harriet Kemsley is joining Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Amy Gledhill for a new podcast about being single women in their 30s.
Taskmaster's live experience opens £25 ticket lottery
Move follows complaints about the cost
25/09/2024 … Producers of the Taskmaster: The Live Experience have opened cup a ticket lottery offering a limited number of places at £25 per person.
Kevin Bridges to host Have I Got News For You
Comic's first time helming the show
25/09/2024 … Kevin Bridges is to host Have I Got News For You for the first time.