All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© ITV Studios/Matt Squire Cockney role for the Bolton comic
06/03/2015 … Peter Kay is to play Danny Baker’s father ‘Spud’ in a new 1974-set comedy series, the BBC has confirmed.
Return to radio five weeks after collapse
06/03/2015 … Ted Robbins is returning to his radio show five weeks after collapsing on stage at Phoenix Nights Live.
06/03/2015 … Chris Rock is planning a new stand-up tour.
06/03/2015 … • Seann Walsh will – inshallah – finally play a gig in Hertford tomorrow – six months after cancelling the show last-minute when he got on a train to Hereford…
© Robert Workman Tube bosses fear 'widespread offence'
06/03/2015 … London Underground has banned a poster for the comedy play Bad Jews — because it 'may cause widespread or serious offence'.
Robert Webb working on childhood memoir
06/03/2015 … Robert Webb is writing a memoir based on his boyhood and adolescence – as well as working on a new sitcom with David Mitchell.
06/03/2015 … MICHAEL McINTYRE is to host an Easter entertainment special for BBC One.
Book deal to coincide with election campaign
05/03/2015 … Pub Landlord Al Murray has signed a book deal to publish his political manifesto.
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