The line-up for this year’s Alpine comedy festival Altitude has been announced. Jason Byrne, Tim Vine, Justin Moorhouse, Jessica Fostekew, and Phil Ellis are among those playing the Austrian ski ...

Glenn Moore was nominated for best show at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. As a newcomer he was runner-up in the 2011 Chortle Student Comedy Award, and finalist in So You Think You're Funny 2012 ...

The story to me was a fascinating one, which was this political love story of sorts between a disillusioned Labour politician and Margaret Thatcher, who was quite a radical politician at the time.

The line-up has been announced for the 19th series of Taskmaster. The contestants for the new run, coming soon to Channel 4, are: Greg Davies returns as Taskmaster with Alex Horne as its faithful ...

Applications are now open for this year’s So You Think You’re Funny? new act competition. Founded by Gilded Balloon boss Karen Koren in 1988, the talent hunt is the oldest amateur stand up comedy ...

A raft of familiar comedy names including Ruth Jones, Jon Pointing and Amy Gledhill have been cast in the next Harlan Coben thriller to be made for Netflix. Friday Night Dinner’s Tracy-Ann Oberman, ...

Dom Joly has made a new comedy sketch that highlights the everyday struggles of small business owners. Shot in Trigger Happy TV hidden-camera style, the clip features the comic as an overwhelmed ...

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

Birds of a Feather star Pauline Quirke has retired from acting, with her husband revealing that she was diagnosed with dementia in 2021. The 65-year-old – who played Sharon in the long-running sitcom ...

Liz Truss made her way to Washington to be part of Donald Trump's inauguration yesterday. And it is surely only an administrative cock-up that meant she, and that other great friend of the 47th ...

John Bishop is piloting a new BBC quiz show from the makers of The 1% Club, Wisdom Of The Crowd is described as being ‘all about making educated guesses’, with producers Magnum Media adding: ‘Think of ...