Tuesday 26th January 2016
Ken Dodd has picked up the Aardman Slapstick Award at Bristol's Slapstick Festival.
Tuesday 12th January 2016
Jo Brand has picked up an honorary doctorate, recognising her work in raising awareness of mental illnesses. She called for the removal of the stigma around mental health.
Wednesday 9th December 2015
Stephen Fry, Psychobitches, Catastrophe, The Graham Norton Show and Newsjack have won at the Rose d'Or Awards 2015.
Saturday 14th November 2015
Warren Mitchell, the comedy actor best known for playing Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part, has died aged 89.
Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Writer Dick Sharples, best known for ITV funeral business sitcom In Loving Memory, has died.
Thursday 13th August 2015
Comedy actor Stephen Lewis, best known for playing Inspector Blake in the popular 1970s sitcom On The Buses, has died aged 88.
Sunday 9th August 2015
Reginald Perrin creator David Nobbs, a novelist and prolific comedy writer, has died at the age of 80.
Thursday 6th August 2015
Actor George Cole, best known as Minder's Arthur Daley and the original St. Trinian's Flash Harry, has died at the age of 90.
Tuesday 28th April 2015
Comedy entertainer Keith Harris, best known for his ventriloquist performances with his puppet Orville, has died aged 67.
Tuesday 23rd December 2014
Sitcom writer Jeremy Lloyd OBE, the co-creator of Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!, has died at the age of 84.
