Aisling Bea and Matthew Lewis have joined the cast of Romesh Ranganathan's BBC comedy Avoidance as filming of the second series starts.Avoidance is a series about living your life avoiding conflict,... more
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Following her acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, three-time Leicester Comedy Award nominee Sikisa is set to head out on tour with her second stand-up hour, Hear Me Out. Starting with a much-... more
Australian comedian Peter Jones has won this year’s Beat the Frog World Series. Northern Irish comedian Daniel McCreanor was runner up in a vote by the audience and Qasim Akhtar... more
BBC Two has announced the commissioning of two new series of Live at the Apollo.The stand-up show has been instrumental in building the careers of some of Britain’s biggest comedy stars from Michael... more
The BBC Comedy Festival is back for a third time and in May 2024 the host city will be Glasgow.The BBC Comedy Festival is a chance for producers, both established and new, and those taking their... more
Brand-new series Evil Genius with Russell Kane sees the award- winning writer, comedian and actor inviting a host of famous faces to delve into the biographies of five polarising figures from the... more
Jimi Famurewa, William Hanson, Sinitta and Maisie Smith are the guests trying to win on this week's House of Games.I've never met Jimi Famurewa but he's the restaurant critic on the newspaper I... more
Comedian Paul Smith lost his first Mixed Martial Arts fight last night against reality TV star Jake Quickenden at Manchester's AO Arena.Jake Quickenden stopped Smith in the first round.The promoters... more
Castle Fine Art presents the latest works from Billy Connolly, this time celebrating the joys of life on the road with new sculptures and limited editions. The comedy icon has just released a new... more
Comedian Daniel Sloss has spoken publicly for the first time about appearing on the Channel 4 documentary about Russell Brand, which aired in SeptemberThe Scotland-based comic was the only stand-up... more
