
Meet the 2024 BBC New Comedy Award heat winners
Final to be hosted by Lucy Beaumont
31/10/2024 … The winners of all the heats of this year’s BBC New Comedy Awards have been revealed.
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Final to be hosted by Lucy Beaumont
31/10/2024 … The winners of all the heats of this year’s BBC New Comedy Awards have been revealed.
'Part memoir, part stereotype-defying manifesto,’
30/10/2024 … Cally Beaton has written her first book, about her ‘mid-life reinvention’ from TV executive to stand-up comedian.
Watch some of her career highlights
30/10/2024 … Comedy actress Teri Garr – whose credits include Young Frankenstein and Tootsie – has died at the age of 79.
Biggest event yet, with 720 shows
30/10/2024 … The Leicester Comedy Festival has announced its 2025 programme, which will be its biggest yet.
Industry body to set out its next moves
30/10/2024 … The UK Live Comedy Association is hosting two Zoom meetings to update members on the work it’s doing.
Manchester's new act challenge comes to a climax on Monday
29/10/2024 … The finalists have been announced for this year’s Beat the Frog World Series new act competition, held at the Frog and Bucket in Manchester.
Massive rise in the number of female comics especially
29/10/2024 … The number of big comedy events has risen by more than a third in the last decade.
...and Southerners the least, according to a new survey
29/10/2024 … Almost one in seven comedy-goers in the North West say they have heckled a comedian – and one in nine admit they have ‘crashed’ the stage…
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