All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Channel 4 ...including Matt Lucas, forced to switch from presenting it
04/02/2022 … Alex Horne, Ed Gamble and Mawaan Rizwan will be taking part in this year’s Great Celebrity Bake Off, it has been announced.
Calls for comic to be remembered at Mornington Crescent
04/02/2022 … Calls are growing for Barry Cryer to be commemorated with a blue plaque at Mornington Crescent underground station in London.
© ITV Deep Heat's guest stars will include Matt Lucas and John Thomson
03/02/2022 … Comedy duo Max & Ivan are making a wrestling comedy for ITV2.
© Maximilian Bühn/CC BY-SA 4.0 New biopic about the comedian’s later life
03/02/2022 … Geoffrey Rush is set to play Groucho Marx in a movie about the comedian’s later life.
03/02/2022 … Entries have opened for the Comedy Bloomers LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year competition 2022.
Featuring unseen footage of the Canadian comedy pioneers
03/02/2022 … Amazon Prime Video has picked up a two-part documentary about Canadian comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
© John Korn Otiz Cannelloni's tributes to his comedy heroes
03/02/2022 … A stand-up who turned to painting his comedy heroes to get through lockdown has landed his first exhibition.
© Netflix Bojack Horseman writers collaborate on Netflix show
03/02/2022 … Charlie Brooker has created an interactive’ cartoon for Netflix, inspired by Tex Avery's Looney Tunes.
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