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 ...

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 ...

Stand-up Laura Smyth is taking part in the first full series of Celebrity Apprentice. The comic has been named among the 12 stars looking to prove their business credentials to Lord Sugar. The line-up ...

James Acaster is reportedly taking part in the next series of The Celebrity Traitors. The comic will be heading to the Scottish Highlands soon with the other contestants to start filming the BBC One ...

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 ...

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 ...