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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lenny Rush, Greg Davies, Asim Chaudhry and James Buckley are to star in a Channel 4 festive comedy-drama entitled Dear Father Christmas, it was announced today.

Spitting Image has responded to the legal action launched by Paddington’s copyright-owners… with a new sketch mocking them. Lawyers acting on behalf of StudioCanal this week filed a High Court ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Baddiel is to follow up his powerful Channel 4 polemic about antisemitism – with a new series about cats. The broadcaster says the pets have long been overlooked on TV, and that this new ...