All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Station orders three stand-up specials with a focus on working-class upbringings
09/02/2021 … Tom Mayhew, Jacob Hawley and George Fouracres are the latest comics to land stand-up specials for Radio 4 – all making reference to their working-class…
Now she'll be 61 when she performs Sixty! (FFS!)
09/02/2021 … Jenny Eclair has become the latest comedian to cancel her spring tour dates, moving them to autumn at the earliest.
08/02/2021 … Rob Delaney has been cast in the new Amazon thriller The Power.
08/02/2021 … Ricky Gervais’s After Life has been named comedy of the year in the annual Comedy.
© ITV 08/02/2021 … Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray is to make a second series of his ITV game show, Lingo.
Winner of Max Turner Prize 2021
08/02/2021 … Actor and new comedian Madeleine MacMahon has won this year’s Max Turner Prize run by London’s Cavendish Arms venue.
© BBC 'Paul Rudd has asked if he can be in it'
08/02/2021 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are set to start filming their long-awaited movie The Glove this summer – and it could feature Ant-Man star Paul Rudd.
© ITV Matt Richardson skates away from Dancing On Ice
08/02/2021 … Matt Richardson’s stint on Dancing On Ice has proved to be very short-lived.
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