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 ...

Prop comic Spencer Jones was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2019 and 2017. His stage alter-ego is called Herbert Clunkerdunk (originally just The Herbert) and has made a series of BBC ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arriving in London following an off-Broadway run earlier this year, Gary Gulman’s Grandiloquent is a deep, personal dive into those very topics, prodding away at his hard-wired vulnerabilities.

They ditched the title The Wrestling for Clash Of The Comics… and for a worryingly long while during last night’s show, it seemed like they might have ditched the actual Wrestling too.