Update: Radio 4 is airing an interview with June Whitfield and Joanna Lumley at 1.30pm today (Sunday) Comedy legend Dame June Whitfield has died. She was 93.Whitfield was a stalwart of British... more
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The final of the Get-Up, Stand-Up competition takes place tonight (December 29) at the Comedy Pub in London, SW1.After ten heats and three semi-finals eleven acts will fight it out to be the funniest... more
Daniel Sloss is the only UK comic to make the Best Comedy Specials list compiled by US website The Interrobang. Fans can now vote for their favourite out of this year's list. Sloss is... more
Comedian Michael Palin has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List. He is recognised for services to travel, culture and geography.Palin, 75, who recently presented a... more
Musical stand-up Andy Askins has been voted Best Live Stand-Up at the 2018 UK Comedy Awards.These are the awards voted for by fellow professionals. They were started in 2013 by John Moloney... more
A trailer has been released for the next new edition of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. The new episode is called Bandersnatch and is set in 1984 in the world of video games. A young programmer... more
TV comedy specials are like arseholes. Everyone has one. Well, not quite everyone, but it has certainly felt that way recently with Netflix dropping standup shows as if they are going out of style.... more
James Acaster's appearance on the Christmas edition of Would I Lie To You? Has proved to be one of the hits of the festive season.In the special guest section Sian Gibson, Lee Mack and James Acaster... more
I don't know what it says about the times we are living in but comedy seems to have slipped into all sorts of programmes this year. Was Black Mirror a comedy? Killing Eve? Patrick Melrose? A Very... more
David Jason returns as Granville, the grocer with the gift of the gab, as he opens the door of Britain's favourite corner shop for a sixth series of Still Open All Hours.There is in-tents excitement... more
