Leicester Square's New Comedian of 2024 open for entries
03/07/2024 … Entries have opened for the Leicester Square Theatre's annual New Comedian of the Year competition.
2024 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 03 July 2024
Tue 02 July 2024
Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh start shooting Only Child
BBC's new Scottish-based father-son comedy
02/07/2024 … Filming has begun on BBC One’s new Scottish-based father-son comedy Only Child.
Jimmy Carr hits 1m YouTube subscribers
One special has 23million viewers
02/07/2024 … Jimmy Carr’s YouTube channel has hit one million subscribers.
© Max Payne Comedy Arcade announces its first Fringe guests
Competitive anecdotes in Edinburgh
02/07/2024 … The Comedy Arcade panel show has announced its first guests for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe run.
© BBC How executives wanted to axe Fleabag's Andrew Scott
Revelation as TV executives mull the future of sitcom
02/07/2024 … American executives wanted to axe ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott from Fleabag, a former BBC comedy chief has revealed.
Mon 01 July 2024
Rare comedy archives to be released
Footage from Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring in their student days
01/07/2024 … Early comedy performances from the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin and Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are to be made available for the first time in a new…
Sun 30 June 2024
Brighton's Comedy Garden returns
30/06/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Comics release stand-up specials for free
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/06/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Now MARK WATSON: THE INFINITE SHOW: The comic’s 2018 stand-up show about trying…