Student Comedy Award 2018 semi-finalists
22/04/2018 … Here are the line-ups for the semi-finals of this year's Chortle Student Comedy Award semi-finals.
2018 Other news
Sun 22 April 2018
Thu 19 April 2018
E4 buys US comedy evoking the 80s fitness craze
19/04/2018 … E4 has bought the rights to US sitcom Let’s Get Physical, whose cast features Dr Quinn Medicine Woman star Jane Seymour.
Nerds on film
Science comedy team to tape a new DVD
19/04/2018 … Festival Of The Spoken Nerd are to release their latest show You Can’t Polish A Nerd on DVD.
© Just For Laughs Jimmy Carr announces Montreal run
As part of Just For Laughs festival
19/04/2018 … Jimmy Carr is to perform a run of his solo show at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival this summer.
Tue 17 April 2018
ABC renews Tonightly with Tom Ballard
...despite controversy and sluggish ratings
17/04/2018 … Australia’s ABC network has renewed comedian Tom Ballard’s topical show Tonightly.
Mon 16 April 2018
James Acaster to headline How The Light Gets In
Festival's comedy bill revealed
16/04/2018 … The How The Light Gets In Festival has announced its comedy line-up.
Comedy Central commissions social media shorts
Online content from Aaron Robertson and Gavin Dunn
16/04/2018 … Comedy Central has commissioned a series of shorts about how people manufacture a social media version of themselves.
Sun 15 April 2018
Cracking pair win innuendo prize
15/04/2018 … Two sock puppets have won an award for the best innuendo at the Bath comedy festival.