Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast is to return for an 11th series, it has been announced today. Launching on all the major platforms on July 23, the new episodes will again feature the comedian offering ...

The BBC’s TV comedy budget fell seven per cent last year, its new annual report reveals. Accounts show that spending on the genre fell from £241million in the year 2023/24 to £224million last year.

Ab Fab’s Jane Horrocks and former Taskmaster contestants Jamali Maddix and Stevie Martin all have guest roles in the third series of Here We Go.

The BFI is to hold a 10th anniversary screening of cult British comedy horror film Aaaaaaaah! Featuring the Boosh duo of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding as well as the likes of Toyah Willcox, Julian ...

John Cleese's Fawlty Towers: The Play is to be screened on TV. Archive channel U&Gold will air the two-hour show, as filmed on the West End stage, in September. It will feature the original cast ...

Comedian Louis CK has been further welcomed back into the fold of the American comedy scene with two headline bookings at the New York Comedy Festival. The stand-up has been largely ostracised by the ...

Elaine C Smith may sit among Scottish comedy royalty but she’s forever in danger of being upstaged by young screen newcomer Harper Blue Hamilton in the new BBC comedy short Govan Fair Queen.

The second survey of the UK live comedy sector has been launched today. Last year, 366 people completed a questionnaire which led to an estimate that the industry was worth £1billion a year to the ...

My favourite comedy open-mic, the Loon Under Laughter, is only two minutes from a train station, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on a Friday ...

My PhD was very boring, so I started doing science communication/science comedy on the side and really loved it. During the pandemic, I kept in touch with the people I met through that who introduced ...

Edinburgh Fringe venue Gilded Balloon has launched its Postcode Pals scheme for a second year, offering local residents discounted festival tickets.

My favourite bit is when I talk about the medical stuff. It’s not a big sob story, it’s how I dealt with it – finding the humour in the middle of all the worry. I’m not mocking anyone, I just talk ...