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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region. LONDON: The ebullient Helen ...

Now, thanks to winning the Share the Craic competition sponsored by Magners, she is. Her prize, worth an estimated £15,000, is a funded run at the Underbelly. But with great reward comes great ...

Bob Mortimer has revealed an early flair for showing off – even if it ended with him being sent home from school for taking his pants down. The comic says he was only trying to impress the other ...

Katherine Ryan has had a successful year, with assets in her company growing by almost £1million. The comedian also paid herself dividends totalling £775,000 from Kathbum, accounts newly filed at ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. ELLE: A prequel to the Legally Blonde series stars Lexi Minetree as the younger version of the character Reese Witherspoon made famous, ...

In 2007, the papers were full of news of John Darwin, who turned up more than five years after he was declared dead in a canoeing accident so his wife Anne could claim the life insurance payout. He ...