All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo According to company accounts filed this week
22/12/2023 … Russell Brand’s fortune has grown by more than £800,000 in a year, Chortle can reveal.
21/12/2023 … A number of comedians have been nominated for next year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards.
© Wycombe Abbey archive and Matt Crocket Limited yellow vinyl to mark International Women's Day
20/12/2023 … A song from West End musical Operation Mincemeat is to be released as a single to mark International Women's Day.
Dancer found fame with Les Dawson
20/12/2023 … Tributes have been paid to Mo Moreland – one of the lead dancers of comedy troupe the Roly Polys – after her death at 87.
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer to star
20/12/2023 … Comic Tessa Coates has sold an eight-part sitcom to Amazon’s Prime Video.
20/12/2023 … What We Do In The Shadows will end with its upcoming sixth season, it has been revealed.
© Channel 4 20/12/2023 … Adam Hills has donated a gold prosthetic foot to a museum about the Paralympic movement.
© BBC Including Matthew Kelly, Charlie Cooper and Susan Wokoma
20/12/2023 … Matthew Kelly is to make his small-screen comeback in the final series of Inside No 9.
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