The acts taking part in Chloe Petts ’ new internet series Comedians Taking Penalties have been announced. The eight-part series launches on YouTube on Tuesday, with each comedian facing a series of ...

It’s not a great time to be a public service broadcaster in the UK, but credit where it’s due for their backing of the comedy circuit. One day after the BBC unveiled Eli Hart as their New Comedy Award ...

The annual Christmas ad battle might finally be coming to an end - and even John Lewis could be in trouble. Brands have been making increasingly sad songs to a slowed-down piano version of a formerly ...

I got to hang out more with Joel [Davison] who plays my grandson Theo and we bonded; he’s such a nice fella and interesting funny bloke. When I look at the montage sequences and the credits which are ...

Tom Towelling has won this year’s Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award. The offbeat comic took the title at a showcase in Bradford last night, following in the footsteps of previous winners Eric Rushton ...

Tom Basden has won a British Independent Film Award for his music in The Ballad of Wallis Island. He and composer Adem Ilhan last night won the accolade for best original music for the movie, which ...

Rich Wilson got into comedy after working as a barman at the Up The Creek club in Greenwich, South London. Inspired by the comedians he saw, he gave it a go himself in 2004, and has since become a ...

When people like it, they like it a lot. I know several comedians who think it's the funniest book ever written. I don't blow my own trumpet because I haven't taken credit for ideas for 30 years. They ...

Thirty years on, and The Fast Show isn’t short of fans. This reunion tour which started last year is running into next, and catchphrases – the word ‘arse’, specifically – are yelled before the cast ...

The first names have been announced for next year’s 40th anniversary Melbourne International Comedy Festival – with a number of Brits among them.

The cast of Peep Show are reuniting for a Christmas Bake Off special. David Mitchell, Olivia Colman, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman are taking part in the special – but Robert Webb is ...

American broadcaster CNN has released the trailer for the new biopic I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not. Billed as ‘authorised yet unfiltered’, the film takes its title from Chase’s biography and the ...