Two performers have launched a crowdfunding campaign to establish a permanent home for improv in Brighton. Heather Urquhart and Jules Munns are part of the city’s well-established Maydays troupe, who ...

Before the alternative comedy revolution and the political satire of Peter Cook and Lenny Bruce during the 1960s counter-culture revolution, there was the French Revolution And before the French ...

The stars of Goodness Gracious Me are to reunite ahead of its 30th anniversary. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Anil Gupta will be talking about their groundbreaking sketch show at Bristol’s ...

Comedy stars Josh Widdicombe, Ivo Graham, Jamali Maddix, Rob Beckett, Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister are uniting for a benefit gig for Palestine. The stand-ups will play the Hackney Empire in East ...

Damian Lewis and Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton have joined the cast of Jimmy Carr’s Downton Abbey spoof, Fackham Hall. The period film – said to be in the vein of Airplane! and Monty Python – has been ...

David Walliams and Matt Lucas are planning a podcast and a stage show – while they are also in talks with Netflix over a TV series. The pair were first linked to the streamer in 2022 when it was ...

Clarke – host of BBC Radio Scotland’s topical panel show Breaking The News – said: ‘It’s such a joy to be part of Hogmanay on BBC Scotland. 2024 has been filled with so many incredible moments, and I ...

Juno Birch’s shtick is that she’s from an alien world – well, Runcorn, really, but close enough – while insisting: ‘I come in peace’ ...

Festival director Krista MacDonald said: ‘Following 2024’s record-breaking year, Glasgow International Comedy Festival is set to once again host comedy’s biggest and best, alongside the industry’s ...

The comic has now performed in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Hindi, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Mandarin and the Indian language of Konkani.

ITV has orderer a third and fourth series of Alan Carr’s semi autobiographical comedy Changing Ends. News of the two six-episode seasons comes after the first two series were streamed more than 13 ...