Ashley Storrie and Richard Gadd are both up for an extra Bafta Scotland award it was announced today.

Nevertheless, the kudos of joining the ranks of Celya AB and Josh Pugh in being a winner of the Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent award is certainly worth having, with five hopefuls competing ...

Channel 4 has released the trailer for Generation Z, its forthcoming horror satire about teenagers fighting a horde of flesh-eating baby boomers. Written and directed by Ben Wheatley – whose credits ...

Red Richardson fronts a new advertising campaign for Dr Squatch grooming products. In the adverts – entitled Britain, We Stink – the comic plays an Anchorman-style newsreader getting frustrated with ...

Common frog calls bingo is OUT; obscure saints bingo is IN. There’s a séance in which audience members control taps, lamps and blenders, a multiplayer alphabet-based version of Guitar Hero, and a very ...

They are darlings of alternative comedy, but Adam Riches and John Kearns are to adopt the personas of mainstream musical entertainers Michael Ball and Alfie Boe for a new festive show. The Cult Comics ...

Tim Key, Alex Edelman and Black Ops star Gbemisola Ikumelo have joined the new US mockmentary follow-up to The Office.

Miranda Hart has been getting a lot of headlines this week for her memoir, revealing the illness that left her housebound and that she had finally found love and got married at 51. But she wonders if ...

Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel are reuniting for a TV series in which they cycle across France. The Channel 4 show is the second programme to feature two male comedy stars who emerged in the 1990s to ...

Maisie Adam was winner of So You Think You're Funny? new act competition at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and was then nominated for best newcomer at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Her first TV ...

Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

2005: Runner-up in the North West Comedian Of The Year competition and finalist in the Leicester Mercury Comedian Of the Year ...