Bath Comedy Festival and VisitBath have announced a sponsorship collaboration with Lovehoney, the UK’s largest online sex toy retailer.Paul Merton, Barry Cryer and Arthur Smith... more
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Applications are now open for the 30th year of the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe newcomer competition So You Think You’re Funny? at the Gilded Balloon.Created in 1988 by Karen Koren, Artistic... more
Madcap Irish comic Jason Byrne has announced a new tour entitled The Man With Three Brains. He will be playing 34 dates starting at Harrogate Theatre on 4 October 2017 and currently... more
ITV has commissioned a new sitcom starring Jack Dee entitled Bad Move. Dee will play Steve and Kerry Godliman will play his wife Nicky. They are both on their second marriages and have decided... more
Editor's note: I saw Jim Tavare's wife's Facebook post about his accident shortly after she posted it on Tuesday evening but I didn't want to publish anything until I had been in direct contact with... more
David Baddiel's acclaimed West End show My Family: Not the Sitcom has been nominated for an Olivier Award. It is in the Best Entertainment and Family category alongside Cinderella... more
BBC Worldwide has announced the release date for the DVD of the current series of Inside No 9 created by and starring Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. The third series of BBC2's acclaimed... more
Comedian Sarah Millican is writing her first book, to be published by Trapeze this October. Details of the the book have been revealed in her latest newsletter."Part autobiography, part self... more
Comedian Frankie Howerd's private and public life is to be turned into a stage play.Howerd's End, by Mark Farrelly, is set in the living room of Wavering Down, the Somerset home of Howerd and Dennis... more
Australian comedian Jim Jefferies to to get his own series on Comedy Central in America.According to a story in Variety the outspoken stand-up has been commissioned to host ten editions of a weekly... more
