A US comedy company is launching a subscription streaming service dedicated entirely to stand-up, with a lineup that includes several well-known British acts. Gorilla Comedy+, from Nashville-based 800 ...

The BBC has announced a YouTube spin-off series of Smoggie Queens called The Dickie Show. It stars Phil Dunning in the guise of drag queen Dickie interviewing celebrity guests in a makeshift studio in ...

Russell Brand has launched a campaign to be the next Mayor of London. The former comedian announced his plan to stand at the 2028 election on the YouTube channel of right-wing US commentator Tucker ...

Victoria Wood died ten years ago. In her memory, yest your knowledge of juests some of her work with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian ...

The line-up has been announced for the Roundhouse Comedy Festival, which is returning to the Camden venue three years after its debut. The festival opens on August 1 – with a ni ...

Six comedy writer-performers have been selected for Comedy Lab Cymru, a development scheme run jointly by S4C, Channel 4 and production company Little Wander. Now in its third year, the programme is ...

Chris O’Dowd is to join Bill Burr on the coming-of-age comedy Bender. Described as Superbad meets Derry Girls, Bender is based on the experiences of writer Adrian Cunningham as a young man in Dublin ...

He’s the comedian who showered FIFA president Sepp Blatter with cash, handed Prime Minister Theresa May her P45, and created the smash-hit BBC comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show… And now, since ...

Hundreds of comedians have been left unpaid by The Leicester Comedy Festival, up to 75 days after they performed there. Organisers have held on to sums likely to be worth tens of thousands of pounds ...

A long-lost 8-bit computer game based on Allo Allo has been unearthed – and released as a free PC download. The platformer was released for the Commodore Amiga in 1993 – with a version also written ...

Taskmaster creator Alex Horne is to set families a series of challenges in a new Channel 4 series. It’s not clear if the programme will be a direct spinoff from the Taskmaster franchise, but does ...