Channel 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have selected three half-hour scripts to be written as part of the broadcaster’s Comedy Lab in Northern Ireland, offering a major opportunity for writers to ...

The BBC has ordered a ‘darkly comedic’ crime drama based on the novels of former comic Caimh McDonnell and co-created by ex stand-up Chris Addison. Addison, now a director and writer whose credits ...

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special. A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins’s work contributed to ‘the spread of ...