More detail has been revealed about Man Like Mobeen, Guz Khan’s forthcoming BBC Three Comedy Feed filmed exclusively on his home turf in Birmingham.Mobeen Deen is a Muslim, English, 27 year-old... more
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The BBC New Comedy Awards Final, compered by Mark Watson, was held today (Sunday) at the Edinburgh Festival and broadcast live on Radio 4 (with a break for The Archers while the judges came to a... more
The results have been announced of this year's Edinburgh Comedy Poster Awards.There were two awards given out, both with a prize money of £1500.The audience award was won by Desiree Burch. Her poster... more
Following on from their video for The Spook School’s Speak When You’re Spoken To, Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry of Pappy’s have directed the new video for the single from Fortuna... more
After two semi-finals the last six comedians in the BBC New Comedy Awards have been confirmed.The final will be compered by Mark Watson (pictured) at the Edinburgh Fringe from 6pm and will be... more
I, Daniel Blake, the new film directed by Ken Loach and starring comedian Dave Johns has won the Public Prize Award at the Locarno Film Festival.Johns had been at the festival and was due to return... more
The new series of Red Dwarf is to return to Dave in September.Red Dwarf XI will air from September 22 at 9pm, but it will also be available online a week early from September 15 on the UKTV Play... more
Richard Wilson has cancelled his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show reviving his acclaimed sitcom character Victor Meldrew after suffering a heart attack. He was due to perform I Don’t Believe It!... more
BBC Three has announced a fourth raft of Comedy Feeds featuring rising talent. This year's batch includes A Brief History of Tim written by and starring Tim Renkow, Fail featuring... more
The spoof poster advertising Nathan Cassidy's fictional 2017 UK Arena tour is in the running for the Edinburgh Fringe's Best Poster Award.As reported on beyondthejoke yesterday, Cassidy is doing a... more
