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Charlie Perkins lined up as Channel 4 comedy head
Blink Industries comedy head Charlie Perkins is the frontrunner to become Channel 4 head of comedy.
Alex Farber, Broadcast, 24th June 2022E4 pilots animated dating comedy
E4 is to trial a new comedy dating show, matching singles by phone and animating their encounters in a series of YouTube shorts.
British Comedy Guide, 26th January 2021Live Comedy Association launches
A new body representing the UK's live comedy industry has been launched in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown.
British Comedy Guide, 1st May 2020Channel 4 to live stream comedy on Tuesday
Channel 4 is to live stream new comedy on its YouTube channel at 8pm on Tuesday 26th November at 8pm. A number of comedians are involved.
British Comedy Guide, 25th November 2019Is Facebook killing online comedy?
Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced major changes to the social network's algorithm. "You'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands and media," he wrote in, predictably, a Facebook status. "The public content you see ... should encourage meaningful interactions between people."
Less than two weeks later, longstanding comedy video website Funny or Die made another round of redundancies, after laying off roughly 30% of its staff in 2016. The website's CEO, Mike Farah, vented his frustration, tweeting: "There is simply no money in making comedy online any more. Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy."
Ben Williams, The Guardian, 8th March 2018Foster's Comedy Awards Panel Announced
The judges, headed by Lucy Lumsden, are Carl Cooper, Alex Hardy, John Nicholson, Charlie Perkins, Zoe Rabnett, Ben Williams, and public panel winners Dave Deverick, Kate Emmett and Mark Muldoon.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th August 2015Producing Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack blog
Hello. We are Charlie Perkins and Arnab Chanda. Charlie is a girl. Arnab is a boy. We are the Producers of the 10th and 11th series of Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show Newsjack.
Charlie Perkins and Arnab Chanda, BBC Writersroom, 31st October 2014