All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Instagram/tony_knight_comedy 'Freak accident' as branch falls from tree
05/07/2024 … Tony Knight – an English comedian who made Australia his home – has been killed by a falling tree branch while at a festival in France.
© David Woolfall/CC BY-SA 3.0 The Stand's director is no longer an SNP MP
05/07/2024 … The founder of The Stand comedy clubs has lost his seat in Westminster.
© BBC Guest stars announced for series 3 of Greg Davies' comedy
05/07/2024 … Inside No 9’s Steve Pemberton and Ghosts star Ben Willbond are among the guest stars in series 3 of Greg Davies comedy The Cleaner.
No reason given for sudden cancellation
04/07/2024 … Ellen DeGeneres has abruptly cancelled four of her US stand-up shows.
© BBC Praise for Lucia Keskin's BBC Three sitcom
04/07/2024 … Lucia Keskin's BBC Three sitcom Things You Should Have Done has been named best comedy at the Broadcast Digital Awards, with Rosie Jones fronted panel…
Comedian's PowerPoint show returns to TV after seven years
04/07/2024 … Dave Gorman is bringing back Modern Life Is Goodish after a seven-year hiatus.
New game show features Katherine Ryan and Dermot O’Leary
04/07/2024 … Audiences will be trying hard not to laugh at comedians in a new TV gameshow.
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Second series for Noel Fielding's dandy highwayman comedy
03/07/2024 … Noel Fielding is to make a second series of The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin for Apple.
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