All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Mario Beauregard Beaustock / Alamy Stock Photo Festival admits major financial difficulties
05/03/2024 … One of the world’s biggest comedy festivals has been cancelled after hitting major financial difficulties.
Comic lined up for Saturday daytime slot
05/03/2024 … Chris McCausland is to present a new ITV Saturday daytime show.
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? out this summer
05/03/2024 … Pierre Novellie has written a memoir about his autism, entitled Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? It is loosely based on his 2022 stand-up show of the same…
...after a year of record-breaking ticket sales
04/03/2024 … The nominees for Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards have been announced, now the two-and-a-half week event event has wrapped.
© Gary Moyes 03/03/2024 … Michael McIntyre has cancelled a gig because he is undergoing an operation to remove kidney stones.
Alex's band and the rest of this week's best live comedy
03/03/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the more than 7,000 events Chortle currently has listed.
Leigh Francis shelves plans to bring back his sketch show
02/03/2024 … Leigh Francis has shelved plans to revive Bo Selecta! - saying that character comedy had fallen out of fashion.
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
02/03/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday March 4 TOAST OF LONDON: Reruns of the Matt Berry sitcom about an eccentric middle-aged…
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