Eric Idle is to star in a BBC Two Christmas Special in which he is joined by younger comedians including Noel Fielding and Robin Ince and also revisits his classic post-Monty Python series,... more
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BBC Four has announced a season of programmes exploring the world of conceptual art, BBC Four Goes Conceptual, including a documentary fronted by Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves.To mark the 100th ... more
Leicester Comedy Festival has received £37,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project which will celebrate the history of comedy and humour. “A Funny City” will culminate... more
Mrs Brown's Boys has been voted the best sitcom of the 21st Century in a poll by the Radio Times.It beat The Office into second place.The full rundown is below. The biggest surprise is that Count... more
Midlands comedian Masai Graham has won this year's Dave Joke of the Fringe Award.His joke was: “My dad has suggested that I register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart.”The... more
A UK release date has been confirmed for The Comedian's Guide To Survival, the new film based on the early career of British stand-up James Mullinger and starring James Buckley.It will be released in... more
The shortlist of nominees has been confirmed today for the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.The winners will be announced at a show at Gillie Dhu on Friday at 11.55pm which... more
Glaswegian comedian Larry Dean has been crowned winner of the Amused Moose Comedy Award Final 2016. Runner up was Neal Portenza.They came top out of the ten finalists in a show at the Space @... more
Farce legend and health campaigner Lord Brian Rix has died. He was 92.Rix was famous for starring in farces onscreen and in the West End's Whitehall Theatre for over thirty years.In later life he... more
The non-stop reading of the Chilcot Report from start to finish at the Edinburgh Fringe ended earlier today (Saturday). The reading of the 2.6 million word document by 1444 people lasted 284 hours... more