All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
New format being piloted next week
04/01/2023 … Could Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe together become the next Noel Edmonds? The comedians and podcasters are set to host a new panel show about TV called…
Full series of You Heard It Here First for Radio 4
03/01/2023 … The BBC has picked up Chris McCausland’s panel show about living in an ‘audio-only world’ for a full series.
American stand-up who became a UK star in the 1980s
02/01/2023 … Kelly Monteith, the US comedian who became a British star in the early 1980s, has died at the age of 80.
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ 01/01/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© C4 The week's best comedy on TV and radio
01/01/2023 … The best of the week’s comedy on TV, radio and on demand… Sunday January 1 ROMANTIC GETAWAY: Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan…
Awards for best MC, promoter and outstanding achievement, too
01/01/2023 … Mark Simmons has been voted this year’s comics’ comic.
'I thought it might have been an administrative error'.
30/12/2022 … Frank Skinner has been made an MBE in the New Year Honour’s list.
© World Affairs Council of Philadelphia/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comic says: 'There is so much fun to be had'
29/12/2022 … Bill Cosby is planning a stand-up tour next year – despite having more than 60 women testify that he sexually abused him.
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