The comedians who will be trying NOT to make an audience laugh
New game show features Katherine Ryan and Dermot O’Leary
04/07/2024 … Audiences will be trying hard not to laugh at comedians in a new TV gameshow.
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Thu 04 July 2024
Wed 03 July 2024
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Dick Turpin to have more Completely Made-Up Adventures
Second series for Noel Fielding's dandy highwayman comedy
03/07/2024 … Noel Fielding is to make a second series of The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin for Apple.
Leicester Square's New Comedian of 2024 open for entries
03/07/2024 … Entries have opened for the Leicester Square Theatre's annual New Comedian of the Year competition.
Tue 02 July 2024
Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh start shooting Only Child
BBC's new Scottish-based father-son comedy
02/07/2024 … Filming has begun on BBC One’s new Scottish-based father-son comedy Only Child.
Jimmy Carr hits 1m YouTube subscribers
One special has 23million viewers
02/07/2024 … Jimmy Carr’s YouTube channel has hit one million subscribers.
© Max Payne Comedy Arcade announces its first Fringe guests
Competitive anecdotes in Edinburgh
02/07/2024 … The Comedy Arcade panel show has announced its first guests for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe run.
© BBC How executives wanted to axe Fleabag's Andrew Scott
Revelation as TV executives mull the future of sitcom
02/07/2024 … American executives wanted to axe ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott from Fleabag, a former BBC comedy chief has revealed.
Mon 01 July 2024
Rare comedy archives to be released
Footage from Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring in their student days
01/07/2024 … Early comedy performances from the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin and Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are to be made available for the first time in a new…