All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Comedy writer's bombshell claims
22/05/2016 … A comedy writer has claimed BBC executives told him to pitch a script to BBC Two rather than BBC Scotland – because Scottish viewers are stupider than their English…
Second series for Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle comedy
21/05/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a second series of Witless, the sitcom starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle as flatmates put into the witness protection programme.
21/05/2016 … Alan Young, who starred in the talking horse sitcom Mr Ed, has at the age of 96.
20/05/2016 … Sir Tony Robinson is to return to comedy, with a new role in Man Down.
© BBC/King Bert Jack Whitehall to be guest star
20/05/2016 … Sketch show David Walliams and Friends has been given a full series on BBC One.
Titles from John Cleese's Video Arts
20/05/2016 … Corporate training videos featuring comedians are to be preserved by the British Film Institute.
CBS release The Great Indoors trailer
20/05/2016 … The first trailer has been released for Stephen Fry's new US sitcom, The Great Indoors.
20/05/2016 … • 'There's an inherent anger in English audiences' Russell Howard.
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