A major new comedy prize has been announced today, alongside its ten inaugural nominees. The Next Big Thing award aims to name one act every year: the one most deserving of the public’s attention, as... more
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Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) has today unveiled the line up for the 2025 festival, which will be its biggest ever event, with over 550 shows taking place in venues... more
ITV has commissioned a third series of BAFTA-nominated comedy The Dry for ITVX, with the second series set to air on ITV1 from Sunday 12th January.The second series has been streamed 2 million times... more
The BBC has announced that the second series of hit comedy-drama Boarders will feature two very special guest stars - screen legends Alan Cumming (The Traitors US) and Natalie Cassidy (... more
Applications open next week to join the third cohort of the BBC Comedy Collective. The collective is a commitment to support and accelerate the next generation of comedy talent, with previous bursary... more
36 pages, 36 laughs - new magazine CHAFF aims to take funny things and put them in print - no nonsense, no self promotion - alright: some nonsense. Co-Created by comedian Will BF and Comedy Producer... more
Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s leading live entertainment company, has announced the launch of Comedy Nation Management, a talent management firm dedicated to nurturing and elevating comedic... more
Comedian Sarah Roberts (as seen on the BBC New Comedy Awards) is taking her debut hour, ‘Silkworm’, out on tour in the spring, including dates in Manchester, Edinburgh, Brighton and London.... more
Three comedy or comedy-adjacent acts appearing in this week's run of Richard Osman's House of Games up against Helen Skelton. Ben Bailey Smith is best known these days as a serious actor,... more
Comic’s Comic - Best Act – Nina Gilligan“I was thinking about retirement and then I got the news about this. It has got to be the most meaningful of all awards to comedians. This will cheer me... more
