An admirable ambition underpins Oliver Coleman’s work, this time putting the focus on the artifice of performance, envisaging a dystopian future of AI art on a burning planet and, even grimmer, ...

Dhinawan Baker has won this year's Deadly Funny title for First Nations comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The stand-up – descendant of the Gamillaroi Bigambul tribe in ...

Paul Whitehouse is to play Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the new TV adaption of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, it has been announced. Broadcaster HBO has also revealed that Nick Frost will play ...

The best songwriters tackle the fundamental struggles of what it means to be human. Among them is Jazz Emu, who has just released this track about an issue that affects us all..

Katherine Ryan went too far in gushing about a brand she had been paid to promote when she appeared on live TV, broadcast watchdog Ofcom has found. The comedian waxed lyrical about Gousto meal kit ...

Bridget Christie has joined cast of award-winning the BBC comedy Things You Should Have Done. She plays an ‘unhinged and unprofessional grief counsellor’ called Ruth in the second series of Lucia ...

It was kind of a jump-scare to find out that Ilana Glazer, former Broad City star and Chronic Gamer Girl of our dreams is now a married parent of a two-year-old. Where did the last ten years go?

An audience member had a laugh like a seal being flogged to death. The laughs were essentially heckles, since they could not be ignored. They actually did most of the legwork in making that set work ...

That said, it WAS a tough decision crowning the winner of the 2025 Raw competition run by the Melbourne comedy festival, with plenty to commend most of the finalists in their five-minute sets.

The finals of Sketch Off! – the UK’s premier competition for sketch and character comedy – makes for a lovely occasion to see ...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: The series concludes with Ghosts star Jim Howick, Gloria Hunniford OBE, model Ellie Goldstein and comic Jamali Maddix taking on a retro recipe for ...

Australian comedian Alice Fraser has cancelled a planned visit to America, partly over fears her past jokes about Donald Trump might land her in trouble with immigration. The stand-up had planned a ...