The PBH Free Fringe is running a venue just for performers making their Edinburgh debuts this year. Most of the 20 shows being staged at Pizza Geeks on Easter Road will run for just a week – while ...

Ricky Gervais has unveiled details of his own show marking 25 years of The Office, to be released a day before the BBC’s own tribute. Co-stars Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook are looking back at ...

I was joking about my dad, who was newly dead which meant my voice was still quavering during set-ups. I was early in the process of ironing the emotions out of my voice, I wanted those jokes to exist ...

Dan Tiernan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe are to join the judging panel for this year's BBC New Comedy Awards. Organisers say they will be working alongside host Amy Gledhill as the searc ...

Lucy Beaumont has announced a major tour – referencing just how badly she has performed on TV quiz shows. The comic’s disastrous appearances on Celebrity Mastermind and The Wheel have informed the ...

The media has been far too harsh on Nigel Farage, a completely normal everyday man who just happens to receive enormous gifts from dear, dear friends. That’s what Broken News i ...

Details have been finalised for the funeral of Kevin McCarron, the co-founder of the Laughing Horse comedy clubs who died last Saturday at the age of 72. The comedian’s son Max posted the details on ...

James Acaster has lent his voice to a new video game. The comic plays The Narrator in Perchang World, a physics puzzle game launching on Apple Arcade next month. Although he has appeared in the ...

Goodnight Sweetheart co-creator Maurice Gran says he is working on a stage play based on the hit 1990s time-travel comedy. He and co-writer Laurence Marks turned the show into a jukebox musical in ...

Comedians Bebe Cave and Horatio Gould have got engaged. Cave, 28, broke the news on social media, posting a picture showing hem both in East London captioned: 'We’re getting married!!!!!’ Another ...

A Turkish comedian has been arrested on charges of insulting Islam and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during one of his shows. Deniz Göktaş, 32, was held at Istanbul Airport yesterday over a set ...

Ed Gamble-fronted panel show Unacceptable has been renewed for a second series, before the first has even airs. The TLC channel will broadcast the initial run of six episodes – with Richard Ayoade and ...