Amazon's Prime Video has released the trailer for the second series of Last One Laughing, ...

Michael Harris-Wakelam, CEO of Big Difference, the charity behind the festival, said: ‘’2026 has marked another exceptional year for Leicester Comedy Festival, with the quality and diversity of the ...

Chris Ramsey and Iain Stirling are to record their latest tour shows as stand-up specials. They will both be taped at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, in North-East London, on April 22 and 24. It follows the ...

Pippa Evans studied drama and theatre arts at Birmingham university, before turning to stand-up and improv. She was chosen by the Pleasance Edinburgh to perform in The 2006 Comedy Reserve, was ...

Junior Simpson has retired from stand-up having been diagnosed with vascular dementia. The condition – caused by reduced blood flow to the brain – comes after the 62-year-old suffered a number of ...

Eva Peroni has become the second finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award. Already a regular on the Scottish circuit, the 21-year-old is in the second year of a global law degree at ...

Paul Smith’s last tour is to be released in more than 350 UK cinemas next month. Pablo Live was filmed at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre with distributors saying the 85-minute release ‘captures the chaos, ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all 007-themed. Good luck!

Production has started on the third season of hit Australian romcom Colin from Accounts. The show will resolve the cliffhanger from series 2, in which Patrick Brammall’s character Gordon proposed to ...

Richard Osman is quitting the House Of Games quiz show that bears his name. The presenter has hosted more than 800 episodes since the show began in 2017. Speaking on his podcast, The Rest is ...

Comedy Central has renewed three of its formats featuring Jimmy Carr, Iain Stirling and Babatundé Aléshé. Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole?, Iain Stirling 's Roast Te Internet and Stupid Central will ...

The comedy club founded by Bernard Manning is to be demolished. The self-styled ‘world famous’ Embassy Club in the Harpurhey district of north Manchester will host its final comedy night on Friday. It ...