All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Comic criticised for posts about Israeli 'war crimes' and 'genocide'
29/11/2023 … Guz Khan has laughed off complaints that his tweets about ‘genocidal’ Israel make him an unfit host of Have I Got News For You.
© BBC/Passion Docs/Trevor Leighton ...as another celebrates French and Saunders
29/11/2023 … Caroline Aherne and French & Saunders are to be celebrated in two new BBC documentaries this Christmas.
...'like something straight out of W1A'
29/11/2023 … Comedy channel Dave is to be renamed U&Dave in a rebranding move by parent company UKTV.
Watch the trailer featuring Alex Horne and Greg Davies
29/11/2023 … Taskmaster is being turned into a virtual reality video game.
Solo performance of Shakespeare's classic
28/11/2023 … Eddie Izzard will play 23 characters in a new one-person version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in New York.
'Sure it may damage your liver, but it could make me millions'
28/11/2023 … Ricky Gervais has become co-owner of a distillery.
...with Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Rachel Fairburn’s podcast celebrating ten years
28/11/2023 … Grace Campbell and the All Killa No Filla podcast have announced dates for 2024.
Details under wraps, but the event WILL be back in 2024
28/11/2023 … London’s Vault Festival has found a new venue.
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