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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comedian Max Olesker has written a memoir about converting to Orthodox Judaism in the name of love. The comic – one of the driving forces behind the Wrestling extravaganza Clash Of The Comics – fell ...

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, ...