Sarah Keyworth wins Melbourne's top comedy prize
British comic scoops festival's most outstanding show accolade
20/04/2024 … Sarah Keyworth has won the award for the most outstanding show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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John Cleese's cancel culture show... is cancelled
19/04/2024 … John Cleese‘s Channel 4 show about cancel culture has apparently ceased to be.
Ivo Graham writes his first book
'A gleeful glimpse behind the grubby curtain of stand-up'
19/04/2024 … Ivo Graham has written his first book, exploring his 'professional meltdowns’ and ‘general bedlam of his life’.
© ITVX / Golden Path Productions ITV 'thrilled' with G'wed's success
First episode of Liverpool-based comedy gets 1.7m viewers
19/04/2024 … Liverpool-based comedy G’wed has become the biggest comedy on the ITVX platform since Alan Carr’s Changing Ends, the broadcaster has announced.
Thu 18 April 2024
© ?????????/CC BY-SA 4.0 Malala Yousafzai to appear in C4 comedy
Nobel winner to cameo in We Are Lady Parts
18/04/2024 … Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is to appear in the next series of We Are Lady Parts.
Owen O’Neill writes his first novel
'Darkly comic' Tom Joad And Me
18/04/2024 … Comedian Owen O’Neill is publishing his first novel.
© Sarah Shatz/HBO Alex Edelman named one of the world's 100 most influential people
Comic makes Time magazine list, backed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
18/04/2024 … Alex Edelman has been named one of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine.
Women get better at comedy when they become mums
18/04/2024 … Women are better at comedy after having children, Sara Pascoe has claimed.