All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Best Medicine event on the first anniversary of lockdown
11/03/2021 … A series of online events exploring the links between comedy and mental health is to be launched on the anniversary of the first lockdown.
Comedy show to return to Radio 4
11/03/2021 … Alfie Moore is to make a sixth series of his Radio 4 show It's A Fair Cop.
© Damian Bennett Tim Minchin's assault on Viagogo
10/03/2021 … Tim Minchin has launched a withering attach on ticket resale sites, branding them ‘cheating scumbags’.
New comedy execs and producers at Sky and the BBC
10/03/2021 … Sky and the BBC have both announced new appointments in their comedy commissioning and producing teams.
© ITV/Avalon 10/03/2021 … Comedians Jessie Cave, Paul G Raymond, Rosa Robson and Janine Harouni have joined the cast of Iain Stirling’s semi-autobiographical new sitcom, Buffering.
BBC drops Hill's comedy short out of respect
09/03/2021 … The BBC has shelved a short comedy film featuring Harry Hill dressed as the Queen - out of respect for the Monarch.
© Drew XXX/CC BY-SA 2.0 09/03/2021 … Richie Tienken, who co-founded one of New York’s oldest comedy clubs, The Comic Strip, has died at the age of 75.
09/03/2021 … Vicar Of Dibley actor Trevor Peacock has died at the age of 89.
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