Nick Mohammed and Sam Nicoresti are double Chortle Award winners
Nick Mohammed and Sam Nicoresti were both double winners at the Chortle Awards tonight,…
Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade join Sonic The Hedgehog 4
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The Ghosts movie The Possession of Button House…
Filming starts on Frankie Boyle's Meantime
Sky has released the first still from the set of the…
Mackenzie Crook hopes for a second series of Small Prophets
Mackenzie Crook has teased a second series of Small…
Sean Hughes's homes given to Shelter
Three homes owned by Sean Hughes have been given to…
Last One Laughing showdown up for a Bafta
The speed-dating showdown between Bob Mortimer and…
Kim Noble writes autobiographical graphic novel
Comedian and performance artist Kim Noble has written a memoir in graphic novel…
Roisin Conaty to host Last One Laughing podcast
The new series of Last One Laughing will be coming with its own companion podcast. Roisin…
First three SNL UK hosts announced
Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed have been announced as first three hosts of…
Best comedy nights of 2026 revealed
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Comic Relief is to air a new Amandaland sketch on Friday, with the titular…
Russell Kane to make his stage acting debut
Comedian Russell Kane is to make his professional stage acting debut this autumn…
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Features
Saturday Night Live UK faces an uphill battle
A tall, well-built man saunters past a band and onto the stage. He is handsome and…
How to fix the Oscars monologue
There’s a peculiar kind of sympathy that only exists among comedians, and it…
'I didn't care if people didn't like me as long as they were looking at me'
Sara Pascoe has spoken about being a precocious child, convinced she was going to…
What did Josh Widdicombe win in series 1 of Taskmaster?
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Reviews
Sam Morrison: Sugar Daddy at Underbelly Boulevard
Directly mining grief and other traumas for comedy…
Live comedy picks
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Katherine Ryan and Jon Richardson in Withering Heights
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Roy Wood Jr. returns to Have I Got News For You UK
American comedian Roy Wood Jr. is to host the opening…
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Fourth series for What Just Happened?
Topical comedy panel show What Just Happened? is returning to BBC Radio Wales…
Michael Sheen's House Of Games
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Comics bid farewell to Banana Cabaret
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Punching Up
Win, lose or jaw
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Going loco for the Glasgow comedy festival
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Videos
Bob Mortimer and David Mitchell arm wrestle on the new series of Last One Laughing UK.
Host Jimmy Carr asked Mortimer to engineer the battle of muscles without letting Mitchell know what he was up to.
And he managed to make it happen:
The first three episodes of Last One Laughing series two – in which comics must try to make each other laugh without cracking up themselves – landed on Amazon's Prime Video today.
Bob Mortimer and David Mitchell arm wrestle
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom trailer
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