Now Joe Wilkinson joins Celebrity Traitors too
Comic reported to be joining Nick Mohammed on BBC reality show
Joe Wilkinson has reportedly joined the cast of Celebrity Traitors. The comedian…
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…
Paul Whitehouse and Nick Frost cast in Harry Potter series
Paul Whitehouse is to play Hogwarts caretaker…
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…
Are You Being Served's Mike Berry dies at 82
Mike Berry, who was the last surviving main cast member of Are You Being Served?,…
Alice Frasier cancels US trip over Trump joke fears
Australian comedian Alice Fraser has cancelled a planned visit to America, partly…
Tour news
Features
My four-part guide to making sure the British SNL isn't a flop
It should come as no surprise that Sky announcing a British version of the 50-year…
'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: Ruby Teys – Cherry Vinyl: Coober Pedy's Last Showgirl
What this? It’s just the age-old story of a baby…
MICF: Nick Robertson: Everything That Happened at Number 68
You couldn’t want for a warmer welcome from Nick…
MICF: Guy Montgomery: I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To Myself
With his reserved, kindly delivery, Guy Montgomery…
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Carl Hutchinson: Today Years Old
Loughborough Town Hall
from 19:30
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Lou Sanders: No Kissing in the Bingo Hall
Plymouth Quad Theatre
Thursday 24th Apr from 19:30Book now
Coming Soon
Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking?
Edinburgh Monkey Barrel
Sunday 20th Apr
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Natalie Palamides: Weer
Soho Theatre Walthamstow
Tuesday 6th May from 20:00Book now
Coming Soon
Benji Waterhouse: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
Canterbury Gulbenkian Theatre
Friday 30th May
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Sean McLoughlin: White Elephant
Cardiff Glee Club
Sunday 4th May from 19:30Book 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
Alan Partridge till I die!
Steve Coogan has said there will always be more Alan Partridge until the day he drops dead. The comic made his comments on the Heart Evening Show, when host Dev…
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…
Have I Got News For You on Trump's tariff chaos
It will come as little surprise, but Have I Got News…
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