All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
With Chris Addison set to adapt them
09/06/2021 … The crime thrillers of comedian turned novelist Caimh McDonnell could be turned into a TV or film series after the rights were sold to production company Avalon.
Radio 4 show about a middle-aged man and his imaginary childhood friend
09/06/2021 … Bill Bailey is to star in a new BBC comedy about a middle-aged man who suddenly meets up with his imaginary childhood friend.
Harry Enfield to play the Prince Of Wales... at the Prince Of Wales Theatre
08/06/2021 … Channel 4’s Royal family sitcom The Windsors is to hit the West End stage this summer.
© Anna Shvets/Pexels Researchers find comics have different brains from everyone else
08/06/2021 … Comedians might like to think their brains are wired differently than everybody else’s – and now scientific research has proved it.
About his trips around England
08/06/2021 … Dom Joly is to release comic travel audiobook about his trips around England, entitled Such Miserable Weather.
© BBC Unite also stars Ivo Graham and Claire Skinner
08/06/2021 … Radio 4 has picked up the sitcom Unite - staring father-and-son comedians Mark and Elliot Steel – for a full series.
Home, Feel Good and Ghosts up for best comedy
08/06/2021 … Home, Feel Good and Ghosts have been nominated for nest comedy at this year’s South Bank Awards.
08/06/2021 … Bill Bailey is to play a week of gig’s at the Royal Opera House in London.
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