Harry Enfield has joined the line-up of next year’s Slapstick comedy festival, making a rare live stage appearance to talk about his career. He will be interviewed by Robin Ince at the Bristol Old Vic ...

Filming has finally begun on Jordan Gray ’s sitcom Transaction – more than two years after it was first announced. In the six ...

By packaging jaw-dropping circus skills with burlesque raunch, David Bates was pivotal in reinventing cabaret when he launched La Clique at the Edinburgh Fringe 20 years ago.

Here’s the first look at what the cast of Outnumbered look like now – eight years after their last outing and 17 years after ...

Cross – known on TV for Arrested Development, Mr Show and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret – will be playing five days of his The End Of The Beginning Of The End Tour in April.

The line-up has been announced for the next Taskmaster’s New Year Treat. Competing for Greg Davies ’s golden eyebrows in the one-off show are former England and Liverpool footballer David James, ...

Given all the opportunities the BBC can afford, it’s no surprise that their New Comedy Award attracts the cream of emerging comedians – and the final of this year’s contest, hosted in Birmingham by ...

Satirical website The Onion has bought the far-right website Infowars. The new owners say they plan to turn the former hate factory into ‘a very stupid website’.

He was 15 minutes into his comedy show Undoctored at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday when an audience member shouted: ‘Medic!' And luckily there were plenty in the room, as Kay tends to attract a ...

Here’s the trailer for Jack Whitehall’s Christmas special Jack In Time For Christmas. In the partially scripted, partially improvised travelogue the comedian has four days to get home to the UK from ...

Piff the Magic Dragon’s canine companion Mr Piffles has died just shy of his 17th birthday. The Flamingo in Las Vegas, where ...

Paul Hilleard has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award. He was crowned at a final at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham that was broadcast on BBC One tonight. ‘Sound, innit? Good, yeah, nice,’ he ...