All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC Ellie Taylor has her sights on Strictly's Blackpool show after wowing judges
13/11/2022 … Ellie Taylor has ended up in sixth place on the leaderboard in week eight of Strictly Come Dancing.
As virtual queues for tickets top 400,000
12/11/2022 … More dates have been added to Peter Kay’s tour, extending it to April 2025.
Six-part series Changing Ends to air next year
12/11/2022 … ITV has picked up Alan Carr’s autobiographical sitcom for a six-part series.
Watermelon smasher turned 'paranoid right-wing maniac'
11/11/2022 … American comedian Gallagher, best known for his smashing watermelons on stage with a slegehammer he dubbed the Sledge-O-Matic, has died at the age of 76.
© Netflix Comic will make history on the streaming channel
11/11/2022 … Chris Rock is to become the first person to perform live on Netflix.
How alternative comedy isn't what it used to be... and probably never was
10/11/2022 … A mythology has grown up around the birth of alternative comedy which isn’t fully born out by the facts, a leading academic in the field has said.
'The love child of Cash In The Attic and Through the Keyhole’
10/11/2022 … Darren Harriott and Josh Jones are to host a new podcast in which they visit fellow comedians’ homes, then auction off some of their stuff for charity.
First gig, 17 months after his career imploded
10/11/2022 … Andrew Lawrence is to perform his first stand-up gig since his career imploded amid a racism storm last year.
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