All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
...for Jim Davidson’s streaming service
20/01/2023 … Comedians including John Moloney, Bobby Davro and Cerys Nelmes are to take part in a panel show for Jim Davidson’s streaming service Ustreme.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? drama revived
20/01/2023 … Rory Bremner is to play Chris Tarrant in a revival of Quiz, the drama about the cheating scandal that engulfed Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The show, by playwright…
© Yellow Door Productions ITVX comedy set in a call centre
20/01/2023 … Jayde Adams has started filming the new ITVX comedy Ruby Speaking, in which she stars as a ‘fun and irreverent’ call centre worker.
The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh 'explores the immigrant's struggle'
19/01/2023 … Sindhu Vee is to star in a new Amazon comedy about an Indian family who move to America.
New book about legend of the alternative comedy scene
19/01/2023 … Alternative comedy legend The Iceman has been immortalised in a new book.
© C4 'It could draw visitors from far and wide'
19/01/2023 … A new exhibition dedicated to Derry Girls is to open, in a bid to lure more tourists to the city where the Channel 4 comedy was set.
...as pub at the centre of storm insists: 'There's no racism here'
18/01/2023 … Police are investigating the racist threats made to Jewish comedian Katie Price during the Arsenal vs Spurs clash on Sunday.
© BBC Radio comedy's archive is now shipshape
17/01/2023 … The archives of classic radio comedy The Navy Lark have been completed after a public appeal found the last missing episode.
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