© BBC Anna Thomas wins the BBC New Comedy Award
06/11/2021 … Welsh stand-up Anna Thomas has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.
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Joe Lycett is to throw a ‘huge queer party’ on Channel 4
90-minute Christmas special commissioned
05/11/2021 … Joe Lycett is to host a ‘huge queer party’ on Channel 4 this Christmas.
Remember when Alan Carr and Lionel Blair saved a man's life
Flashback after Blair dies at 92
05/11/2021 … In honour of Lionel Blair, who died yesterday at the age of 92, we reprint this story from September 21, 2006, in which he and Alan Carr saved a man's life.
Mrs Doubtfire musical comes to the UK
Manchester run for Broadway hit, written by John O’Farrell
05/11/2021 … A musical version of Mrs Doubtfire is coming to the UK next year.
Thu 04 November 2021
Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth tries stand-up
Watch the MP's first bash at comedy
04/11/2021 … Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth performed his first stand-up comedy gig last night.
BBC comedy development producer joins her old bosses
Emily Allen takes a new job Boffola Pictures
04/11/2021 … Boffola Pictures, the production company set up by former BBC comedy chiefs Shane Allen and Kate Daughton, has made its first appointment Emily Allen –…
Early Channel 4 sitcom unearthed after almost 40 years
Crowdfunding drive to get wordless comedy The Optimist released on DVD
04/11/2021 … One of the first sitcoms made for Channel 4 could finally see the light of day again after almost 40 years The Optimist starred comedian and original…
Third series for Code 404
Sky confirms return of futuristic cop comedy
04/11/2021 … Sky has commissioned a third series of Code 404 - the futuristic crime-fighting comedy starring Stephen Graham, Daniel Mays and Anna Maxwell Martin.