Bill Bailey says BBC rejected his Eurovision song
Comic was told 'it's too silly, we can’t have that'
25/05/2021 … Bill Bailey one put forward a song for Eurovision – which the BBC rejected for being ‘too silly’.
Latest News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 25 May 2021
© Matt Humphrey Fleabag stage show heads to Amazon Prime
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s West End performance filmed by the National Theatre
25/05/2021 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s stage performance of Fleabag is to broadcast on Amazon Prime next month.
© Two Rivers Salisbury gets its first comedy festival
Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain headline
25/05/2021 … Salisbury is to stage its first comedy festival – a day-long outdoor event headlined by Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain.
Comedians return to Celebrity Gogglebox
25/05/2021 … Iain Stirling and his presenter wife Laura Whitmore; Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aléshé, and Gyles Brandreth & Maureen Lipman are all…
Mon 24 May 2021
Third season for A Black Lady Sketch Show
HBO renews Robin Thede's series
24/05/2021 … HBO has commissioned a third season of A Black Lady Sketch Show.
Sophie Willan wins a Bafta for Alma's Not Normal
Stand-up scoops comedy writing gong
24/05/2021 … Sophie Willian has won a Bafta.
Sadia Azmat writes her memoirs as a 'horny Muslim'
24/05/2021 … Sadia Azmat is to publish Sex Bomb, a ‘conversation-starting’ memoir about being a sexually liberated, hijab-wearing Muslim woman.
© Avalon Spitting Image auf Deutsch
German gets its own version of satirical puppet show
24/05/2021 … Germany is getting its own version of Spitting Image.