All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Go Away! revolves around a pot-growing deadbeat
27/06/2024 … Paddington's Hugh Bonneville and This Is England’s Michael Socha are to star in a dark crime comedy film called Go Away! According to…
Bridgerton-style parody featuring his Regency-era fop
27/06/2024 … The aristocratic Regency-era alter-ego of comedian Christian Brighty is to star in his own Radio 4 comedy.
Inspired by his dislike of audience participation
26/06/2024 … Daniel Kitson has announced a London run of his latest show, Collaborator this summer.
© BBC Watch their swear-free remake here
26/06/2024 … Armando Iannucci has spoken of how the Americas ruined The Thick Of It - exorcising all the swearing and making a ‘really boring’ version of his political…
London musical comedy bids farewell to the PM
26/06/2024 … Rishi Sunak is getting a satirical stage send-off – with a new stage musical dedicated to the soon-to-be-ex-Prime Minister.
© Channel 4 Including Joe Lycett, Bridget Christie, Rose Matafeo and Rhod Gilbert
26/06/2024 … Joe Lycett, Bridget Christie, Rose Matafeo and Rhod Gilbert are among the comedians nominated in this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival awards.
Alongside Ladhood's Samuel Bottomley and comics Leo Reich and Jamali Maddix
25/06/2024 … Comedian Lara Ricote is to star in a new Channel 4 comedy pilot about romance in the cost-of-living crisis.
© Channel 4 Filming starts soon on series 2 of Bridget Christie's comedy
25/06/2024 … Mackenzie Crook is to direct series 2 of Bridget Christie’s Channel 4 comedy The Change.
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