All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© David Shankbone/CC BY-SA 3.0 Austin Powers star to play 'multiple characters'
18/04/2019 … Austin Powers star Mike Myers is to make a new comedy series for Netflix in which he plays a series of characters.
18/04/2019 … Mya-Lecia Naylor, who starred in the CBBC comedies Almost Never and Millie Inbetween, has died suddenly at the age of 16.
Strongest hint yet that the sitcom is coming back
17/04/2019 … Kelsey Grammer has been photographed clutching a what appears to be script for a new episode of Frasier.
He is the Law Man in Channel 4 project
17/04/2019 … Nick Mohammed is piloting a dark, crime thriller comedy for Channel 4, Chortle can reveal.
Ab Fab creator lends her voice to animated series
17/04/2019 … Jennifer Saunders joined the cast of the Thunderbirds Are Go reboot.
17/04/2019 … The BBC has launched its annual hunt for new comedy talent.
Assembly announces a big chunk of its programme
17/04/2019 … Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman is to play the Edinburgh Fringe.
UKTV cancels its fantasy comedy series
17/04/2019 … Fantasy comedy series Zapped has itself been zapped out of existence.
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