Another BBC New Comedy Award heat winner named
Aaron Simmonds males the semis
14/07/2017 … Aaron Simmonds has won tonight’s heat of this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.
2017 Other news
Fri 14 July 2017
Wed 12 July 2017
Sarajevo salutes John Cleese
12/07/2017 … John Cleese is to be honoured by the Sarajevo Film Festival next month, Calling him the ‘world's living legend of comedy’, organisers are…
Vir Das cancels Edinburgh run
Indian comic not coming to the Fringe
12/07/2017 … Indian comedian Vir Das has pulled out of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Tue 11 July 2017
Shooting starts on Country Music comedy-drama film
With Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters
11/07/2017 … Filming has stared on a new comedy-drama film about an ex-con who wants to make it as a country singer.
Which comedians are Manwatching?
Edinburgh Fringe theatre cast announced
11/07/2017 … The comedians taking part in the Edinburgh run of Manwatching have been announced.
Shooting starts on Trollied series 7
At a full-size supermarket in Bristol
11/07/2017 … Filming has begun on the seventh series of Sky1 comedy Trollied.
Mon 10 July 2017
Montreal honours Trevor Noah
Plus Jim Carrey, Craig Ferguson, Mike Birbiglia and more
10/07/2017 … Trevor Noah, Jim Carrey and Scotland’s Craig Ferguson are to be honoured by Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival later this month.
Fri 07 July 2017
A Huge victory!
Davies is BBC New Comedy Award's second semi-finalist
07/07/2017 … Musical comedian Huge Davies has won the second heat of this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.