Big comedy names join The Reluctant Vampire
Tom Davis, Sian Clifford, Joe Wilkinson, Bill Bailey and more
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This Cruel Little Man is on tour...
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Scott Bennett's stand-up show hits Radio 4
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Terry Jones archive to be preserve
Terry Jones’s archive has been donated to the…
Michael McIntyre makes £2million in a year
Michael McIntyre’s wealth grew £2million…
Lewis Hamilton plans a TV comedy
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Have I Got News For You audience cheer as they find out Andrew is no longer a prince
The news that Andrew is no longer a prince broke doing…
Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show 'shelved'
The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show will not be returning to the BBC. Today’s…
Elliot Steel to front slap-fighting documentary
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Fjord release their debut album
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Let's mark Eric Morecambe’s 100th birthday!
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103 complaints over Call Jonathan Pie
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Terry Jones statue design is complete
The statue of Terry Jones as the nude organist from Monty Python’s Flying…
Tour news
Features
Who sang the theme tune to Twenty Twelve?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
Prunella Scales: Seven classic performances
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Into The Spider-Verse of Taskmaster's foreign remakes...
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'I've said terrible things... but as long as it’s funny, I think it’s forgivable'
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Reviews
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
John Bishop: 25
Belfast SSE Arena
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Ross Noble: Cranium of Curiosities
Stoke-on-Trent Victoria Hall
Thursday 6th Nov from 20:00Book now
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Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie
Soho Theatre
Friday 7th Nov from 19:15
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Hal Cruttenden: Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It
Milton Keynes Stables
Saturday 22nd Nov from 20:00Book now
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Jason Byrne: Head in the Clouds
Nottingham Metronome
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Nick Helm: No One Gets Out Alive
Sheffield The Foundry
Wednesday 19th Nov from 19:30Book now
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Two Doors Down Live adds extra dates
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Eddie Izzard goes back to school
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Famous faces relaunch a 60-seat pub theatre
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Beat the Frog 2025 finalists announced
Manchester’s Frog and Bucket Comedy Club has announced the ten finalists for…
BBC to rerun Fawlty Towers episode
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Kate Berlant returns to the UK
American comedian Kate Berlant is to play the Soho Theatre Walthamstow next year,…
Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival to return
The Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival is to return to the Leeds landmark next…
Punching Up
Prince Andrew: The Musical stripped of its honours
Channel 4 has issued a statement saying that it has ‘initiated the formal process to remove the style, title and honours of Prince Andrew: The Musical’. The…
Coopers 'are related to Dick Turpin'
Daisy May and Charlie Cooper have been told they are…
Sold! A fish with the face of Graham Chapman
A fish with the face of Graham Chapman has sold for…
Jamali Maddix: I cried before my first stand-up gig
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Videos
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been making headline both sides of the Atlantic after being stripped of his titles and Royal Lodge residence.
And on this week’s Have I Got News For You US, the panel tore into the Jeffrey Epstein’s old pal.
Podcast host Jennifer Welch and journalist Max Chafkin joined host Roy Wood Jr and regular panellists , Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black for this week’s edition of the CNN show:
Have I Got News For You US on 'Prince' Andrew
Roy Wood Jr and the panel wade in
Weekend Update on another week in Trumpland
With Colin Jost and Michael Che
Medication for those allergic to commitment
A flatshare horror