March 2016
American comedian Garry Shandling has died. He was 66.
Shandling was best known as the star of chat show satire The Larry Sanders Show. Before that he broke through with the postmodern sitcom It's Garry Shandling's Show in which he paused the action to speak directly to the audience.
According to reports Los Angeles police told the BBC that Shandling "suffered a medical emergency" on Thursday. Reports elsewhere suggest it may have been a heart attack.
The Edinburgh Fringe's C venues has announced a new flagship venue. It will be the Edinburgh landmark, Saint Stephen’s in Stockbridge.
Jena Friedman certainly looks like she has plenty of attitude in her surly press shots. And calling her show American C*nt – even with an asterisk – is quite audacious. Onstage, however, she is less in your face. There are only flashes where she justifies her own build-up.
Conspiracy theorists can have a field day with the fact that in some places episode four was billed as The Migrant Crisis. In fact our stand-up sage-cum-holy-fool is here to guide us through his thoughts on death this time. Did it change or did someone get it wrong? More pertinently, however, the show is a return to top form after a spot of water-treading last week.
The first batch of comedy and cabaret acts for this year's Latitude Festival have been confirmed.
The major headliner is Russell Howard, doing a rare top-of-the-bill show ahead of his next world tour. Two further big comedy names will be announced at a later date but revealed today are lots of other appealing attractions for the comedy and cabaret tents over the long weekend of July 14 - 17 in Henham Park, Suffolk.
Ricky Gervais has released a trailer for his forthcoming film Special Correspondents.
The film is written and directed by Gervais who also co-stars alongside Eric Bana and Vera Farmiga (pictured) plus Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Pollak, America Ferrera, Raúl Castillo, and Benjamin Bratt.
The film tells the story of a New York-based radio journalist (Bana), who fakes Ecuadorian war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in New York.
Peter Serafinowicz is to star as a superhero.
According to reports coming out of America, the comedian/actor/voiceover genius is set to play the title role in The Tick.
Amazon is to make a pilot based on the comic book character created in the 1980s by Ben Edlund.
Applications have now opened for the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016.
Last year's winner was Yuriko Kotani. Recent winners include Angela Barnes, Steve Bujega and Lucy Beaumont. The competition has also helped to kick start the careers of Sarah Millican, Rhod Gilbert and Peter Kay.
This year broadcasts will move from Radio 2 to Radio 4 and 4 Extra.
Apply here.
C4's Catastrophe and E4's Chewing Gum were among the big winners at the RTS Awards last night.
Catastrophe, by Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, won Best Scripted Comedy and Comedy Writing. Michaela Coel was awarded Breakthrough Performance of the Year as well as Best Comedy Performance for Chewing Gum.
ITV favourites Ant & Dec won Best Entertainment Performance..
John Cleese has hit out at Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the unofficial homage to the legendary TV series written by Cleese and Connie Booth. In an interview he has talked about taking legal action.
He has described the show, by the Australian company International Interactive Theatre, which has been running around the world since 1997, as “brazen, utterly shameless”.
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