Comedian Amy Matthews is joining EastEnders. The stand-up plays a character called Rita, who will be seen chatting with Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) in The Queen Vic, flirtatiousl ...

Otherwise we were all responding or reacting to something, but we owned this.’ Syal agreed: ‘We've seen ourselves represented in so many bad ways, literally with blackface and the head waggling and ...

Performers’ union Equity says it is helping comedians hit by the financial difficulties engulfing the Leicester Comedy Festival. The union says it has successfully secured payment for three comedians ...

The next series of Colin From Accounts will be the last, creators Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall have announced. The pair, a real-life couple who also star in the romcom, broke the news in a video ...

Matt Lucas is to play Fagin in the West End revival of Oliver! this autumn. Lucas will take the role for six weeks from September 22 to November 1, while Simon Lipkin, who currently plays Fagin, takes ...

It will surely come as no surprise for anyone heading to the Fringe next month, but Edinburgh has been named the most expensive place in Europe to stay this summer. The median cost of a night in a ...

The World Meteorological Association gathered one final time today to once again warn humanity about ever-increasing global temperatures. The world experts have decided to finally call it a day after ...

Half of people working in comedy have experienced sexual assault, research has shown. In a study, 52 per cent of people who chose to answer questions about the subject said they had experienced ...

Malaysian comedian Harith Iskander is being sued by the wife of his country’s former Prime Minister for joking she was scary. Rosmah Mansor – who in 2022 was sentenced to ten years in jail and fined ...

Steve Pemberton, Chloe Petts and Alison Steadman are starring in a new audio sitcom about ‘being blind …and a bit of an idiot’. You’ve Got Braille – to be released as a four-part podcast across all ...

Jen Brister and Laura Smyth are to take part in the next series of Celebrity Hunted. The comedians will go on the run next month as part of the next charity series of the show, in aid of Stand Up To ...

A new Edinburgh Fringe award will give a £1,5000 can prize to an act for whom going to the festival is a ‘massive financial risk’. The Banneret Award is being handed out by the London Arts ...