All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© David and Carole with Tony Law David's 304 Fringe show makes the Guinness book
09/01/2015 … The comedy fan who watched 304 shows over the Edinburgh Fringe has officially been accepted into the Guinness book of records.
09/01/2015 … • ‘Chatting to other comics can be horrible.
09/01/2015 … Comedy actor Lance Percival, whose credits include Up Pompeii, Carry On Cruising and his own sitcom, has died at the age of 81.
Sky 1 orders apocalyptic comedy-drama
08/01/2015 … Sky 1 has ordered a new comedy-drama about the end of the world.
Comedian insists on an all-male audience
08/01/2015 … A comedian says he’ll ban women from the audience of his next Edinburgh show.
Protesters to descend on Channel 4
08/01/2015 … Campaigners are planning to hold a demonstration outside Channel 4's headquarters in protest at their planned comedy set against the Irish famine.
New film based on the Northern club circuit
07/01/2015 … Maxine Peake and Martin Freeman are set to star in a 'hard-hitting' film about a female comic trying to make it on the 1970s northern club circuit.
07/01/2015 … Marcus Brigstocke,John Finnemore and Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd are in the running for a BBC radio award.
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