All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Broadcaster's comedy chief Jon Petrie on his quest for home-grown stories
19/06/2024 … BBC comedy chief John Petrie has insisted ‘it is still possible to make a sitcom on a BBC budget’ – despite production companies increasingly…
© C4 19/06/2024 … The Last Leg is to air a two-hour election special the night after polling day.
As adapted by Armando Iannucci andSean Foley
19/06/2024 … Steve Coogan’s stage version of Dr.
© Netflix 19/06/2024 … Everybody Hates Chris is getting an animated revival.
As her new movie prepares to hit the festival circuit
19/06/2024 … Nina Conti has announced a 2025 tour of her new live show Whose Face Is It Anyway? The comic and ventriloquist launches the show at the Edinburgh …
© UKTV For a new retrospective on Gold
19/06/2024 … Here are Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders.
© Will Hearle Co-created by Lorna Rose Treen – a former producer on the real show
18/06/2024 … Sian Clifford - best known for playing Fleabag’s sister Claire – is to front a new Woman’s Hour parody on Radio 4.
Protester thrown out of comic's show in Sydney
18/06/2024 … Jerry Seinfeld has been confronted with a pro-Palestinian heckler at his show in Sydney.
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