comedy
NHS psychiatrist, award-winning comedian and Sunday Times best-selling author Dr Benji Waterhouse returns to the Pleasance Courtyard with his second comedy hour.
Big Finish Originals – Comedy Playhouse, a collection of six brand-new full-cast audio sitcom pilots from upcoming writers, is due for release in November 2025.
In 2023, Big Finish Productions and Write on Comedy united to revive the BBC’s legendary anthology series Comedy Playhouse and ran an open submission competition for sitcom pilot scripts.
The winning script, The Cracks Are Showing by Cy Henty an
Mexican American comedian Nick Hornedo makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with ‘Watch This When You Get Home’ at the Underbelly Bristo Square Clover. The show has already featured as part of the Projectorfest, SOLOCOM and the New York City Fringe Festival in the US. A selection from this show is being featured in an episode of PBS's Stories From the Stage and will be airing on US television.
The finalists for the first ever WEST END NEW WOMEN COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR have been announced.
The show is the latest competition under the West End New Act of the Year banner and aims to give a platform for new acts who have been going for under three years.
the acts compoeting are:
Bonya
Eloise Heath
Emma Davies
Hazel Donovan
Channel 4 has announced the first four unscripted formats for its new digital channel dedicated to comedy, A Comedy Thing by Channel 4.
The new formats have been developed by Strong Watch Studios, who will manage the channel and have been commissioned to produce the first wave of episodes for the channel and additional social content.
This year’s Published Novel longlist celebrates 14 anarchic and daring writers. The novels cover genres from domestic noir to queer fiction, from sci-fi to clowning, proving that comedy can cross-fertilise with many other genres.
The second comprehensive survey of the UK Live Comedy Sector officially launches today. This initiative is a collaborative effort between the Live Comedy Association, British Comedy Guide, and the Centre for Comedy Studies Research at Brunel University London.
Channel 4 is to launch a new dedicated digital comedy channel for original unscripted comedy content. Hosted on YouTube, A Comedy Thing by Channel 4 will launch later this month. Among the comedians who will be involved are Micky Overman and Olga Koch.
Channel 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have selected three half-hour comedy scripts to be written as part of the broadcaster’s Comedy Lab in Northern Ireland, offering a major opportunity for writers to develop bold, distinctive comedy projects.
BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ have commissioned two six-part series of new drama Tall Tales & Murder, in association with Screen Ireland. The show is written by Stuart Carolan - the writer and creator of RTÉ's smash-hit crime drama Love/Hate, one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Irish dramas ever produced - and is co-created with double EMMY and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison (Veep, Breeders, The Thick of It).
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