BBC NEW COMEDY AWARDS: The annual talenthunt returns with Carwyn Blayney, Will Owen, Omari Douglas, Jess Carrivick and Alfie Dundas taking to the stage in Bristol for the first heat, trying to impress ...

Poehler was the episode’s host, and Fey separate appearance playing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Earlier in the segments regular hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che make jokes about Donald ...

Peter Kay has revealed he wrecked Eric Clapton’s expensive patio with an inflatable paddling pool. The guitar legend allowed the comic to stay at his 16-bedroom Provence holiday home after becoming ...

Clash Of The Comics – in which comedians wrestle with each other and pros – is to air to U&Dave. The event at the Eventim Apollo last night was filmed for the channel, host MC Ivo Graham announced ...

Romesh Ranganathan is to make his West End debut, starring in an Alan Ayckbourn play. The comic will star opposite Sheridan Smith in the darkly comic psychological drama Woman in Mind from December.

Rowan Atkinson’s new series Man vs Baby will launch on Netflix on December 11, the streamer has announced. The follow-up to Man vs Bee will see the Mr Bean star return to the role of Trevor Bingley, ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about body-swap ...

You don't have to do it by committee, which is what I've found frustrating throughout my television career. Those suggestions of creative changes where you end up with something with no resemblance to ...

Gutter Royale is not a competition, although an element of that would not have gone amiss and might have provided some direction for the energy of the crowd. If it had been, the winners would have ...

Geoff Norcott has been turned into a deepfake by the Russian propaganda machine. The comedian bizarrely fronts an artificially manufactured video alleging to show him looking at art on display at the ...

The BBC has ordered a fourth series of Tom Basden ’s Here We Go – plus a New Year’s Eve special to air this year. All the key cast will be returning for the new episodes, including Jim Howick, ...

Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, ‘Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,’ she posted on Instagram. ‘Stop ...