Greg Davies is the co-writer of a new comedy for Sky One and NOW TV.In Safe Space the famously tall Taskmaster host plays a demotivated small-time psychotherapist heading nowhere fast until fate... more
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BAFTA-nominated Samson Kayo (Famalam, Timewasters) and Golden Globe-nominated Jane Horrocks (Absolutely Fabulous, Trollied, pictured) are to star in six-part comedy series... more
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced today, Wednesday 12 February, that Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea will step down from his role as Chair of the Fringe... more
The winner of the inaugural Komedia New Comedy Award is Michael Akadiri. After a tight competition, Akadiri was presented his award onstage at Komedia in Brighton. Dinesh Nathan was 1st runner... more
Stand-up comedian Athena Kugblenu is the recipient of this year’s Felix Dexter Bursary scheme.The six-month bursary, run by BBC Comedy, is awarded to aspiring comedy writers, with the aim of making a... more
Channel 4 is to return to Victorian London for a second run of Year of the Rabbit. The six-part series will once again focus on tough booze-hound detective Rabbit (Matt Berry), his hapless... more
This April sees a new Comedy Festival in Bristol. The one-day event will run across three venues on Sunday 26th April and feature 18 hours of Fringe comedy previews from the likes of Rosie... more
Jon Richardson is back this autumn with an all new stand-up tour - The Knitwit. The tour stars at Chester Storyhouse on Tuesday 8th September and currently ends at Warwick... more
The final of the sixth annual UK Pun Championships has taken place at De Montfort Hall, Leicester as part of #ukpunday, an annual event in which pun fans around the country unite to share their... more
Punday (er, Monday) 10h February marks the UK’s sixth ever UK PunDay, an annual event in which pun fans around the country unite to share their best (and worst) puns on social media, using... more
