Alex Horne writes his first children's book
The Last Pebble out this summer
Alex Horne has written his first children’s book, about a boy who finds a mysterious…
Garry Starr wins Melbourne festival's top award
Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins has been named…
Now Joe Wilkinson joins Celebrity Traitors too
Joe Wilkinson has reportedly joined the cast of Celebrity…
Award set up in memory of Marie Goulbourne
A new award for up-and-coming comedians has been set…
Jimmy Carr asks: Am I The A**hole?
Jimmy Carr is to host a new Comedy Central panel show…
The Melbourne comedy festival award nominees for 2025 are...
Ahir Shah, Flo And Joan’s One Man Musical and…
Helen Lederer joins Fawlty Towers
Helen Lederer is joining the cast of the Fawlty Towers…
Nick Mohammed 'signs up for Celebrity Traitors'
Nick Mohammed has reportedly signed up to appear on the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors. The…
Paul Whitehouse and Nick Frost cast in Harry Potter series
Paul Whitehouse is to play Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the new TV adaption…
Ofcom criticises Katherine Ryan for plugging products on live TV
Katherine Ryan went too far in gushing about a brand she had been paid to promote…
Bridget Christie joins Things You Should Have Done
Bridget Christie has joined the cast of award-winning BBC comedy Things You Should…
Did Benny Hill deserve to be cancelled?
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday…
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle…
Tour news
Features
What the British SNL will need: improvisers
Having previously discussed the issues of how the sketches and the guest hosts might…
'A lot of people in the comedy world are downright hostile towards faith'.
The new series of Pilgrimage airs this way as seven famous faces of differing faiths …
'I think a lot... but that doesn't always come across in my work'
The new series of Pilgrimage airs this way as seven famous faces of differing faiths …
2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival reviews
All our reviews from the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Dan…
Reviews
MICF: Jack Ansett: What's Everyone Having for Dinner?
New Zealander Jack Ansett is a proud nerd with too…
MICF: Ben McCarthy: Cadet Kelly is the Best Movie I've Ever Seen in my Friggin Life
A whole hour dedicated to Cadet Kelly, the formulaic …
MICF: Ruby Teys – Cherry Vinyl: Coober Pedy's Last Showgirl
What this? It’s just the age-old story of a baby…
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Peter Kay Live
Glasgow Ovo Hydro
Book Now
MC Hammersmith: The MC Stands for Middle Class
Edinburgh Monkey Barrel
Friday 25th Apr from 19:30Book now
Coming Soon
Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking?
Southampton The Attic
Saturday 26th Apr
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Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
Soho Theatre
Thursday 8th May from 19:00Book now
Gig of the day
Justin Moorhouse: The Greatest Performance of My Life
Bristol Wardrobe Theatre and Old Market Assembly
from 19:30
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Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway?
Duke of York's Theatre
Saturday 3rd May from 21:00Book now
Other news
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its digital…
Sue Perkins to host Have I Got News For You
Sue Perkins is to host Have I Got News For You…
Dhinawan Baker is officially Deadly Funny
Dhinawan Baker has won this year's Deadly Funny title for First Nations…
Meet the BBC's newest radio comedy writers
Eve Delaney and Ruth Huskisson have been named as this year’s staff comedy…
Who's up for the 2025 Aria award for comedy?
The nominees for the leading awards in radio and podcasting have been announced Up…
Ayo Adenekan is having his Edinburgh Fringe production costs paid under a new bursary. He…
Cast announced for Ashley Blaker's Radio 4 show
Rosie Holt and Kieran Hodgson have joined the cast of Ashley Blaker’s new Radio…
A raft of A-list comedians are to pay tribute to Joan Rivers in a televised gala. The likes…
Punching Up
A critical situation
What’s a comedian to do when they realise there’s only one person in their audience – and it’s a reviewer? For Australian absurdist Jordan…
Steve Coogan has said there will always be more Alan…
He may be an 82-year-old knight of the realm, but Sir…
Rhod Gilbert: An agent signed myself after I shat myself on stage
Rhod Gilbert has revealed how he got signed by…
Videos
Anyone missing 1980s electro Europop?
Never fear, Kyle Gordon has nailed the genre with another of his spot-on musical parodies.
He presents; Girl Of The Heart (feat. Giovanni Ice) - the latest track from his album .
Girl Of The Heart
Kyle Gordon's 80s pop parody
Show returns to Channel 4 on May 1
Flo & Joan: Moments that will haunt us forever
At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Randy Rainbow song parody