Sarah Millican is to do a special one-off gig at the Edinburgh Fringe in support of the Leicester Comedy Festival.The show will feature Millican plus a line-up of special guests. The performance... more
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Bianca Del Rio, one of the stars of cult TV show Ru Paul's Drag Race, is to tour the UK with her latest show ‘Not Today Satan’. Del Rio's dates run from February 3 - 10 next year.The self-... more
A memorial plaque is to be unveiled in York in honour of comedy legend Frankie Howerd. Full Monty actor and York’s Cultural Ambassador Mark Addy will do the unveiling at 6.30pm on... more
Tilusha Ghelani is to join Sky Comedy as Commissioning Editor. She will be responsible for commissioning and executive producing new and established television comedies. Operating across... more
The line-up has been announced for the final of The Sitcom Trials So You Think You Write Funny competition, which sets out to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the... more
Comedian Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer have created a new Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously playing a single game of Pong. They broke the record of 251 by getting 286 people... more
Two new awards have been annnounced for this year's Edinburgh Fringe.Comedian Will Franken is launching the Defining The Norm Awards. Shows will be judged by Franken and his team for "... more
Alice Lowe has been shortlisted for the inaugural Screen International Horror Rising Star Award.The new award, celebrating the work of emerging talent in genre cinema, has been launched... more
Canadian Comedian Mike Ward has been ordered to pay former child singer Jeremy Gabriel $35,000 for making jokes that violated his rights.The amounts consists of $25,000 in moral damages and... more
Actor Peter MacNicol has had his Emmy nomination withdrawn after the Television Academy ruled his performance in Veep was ineligible in the category Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy.MacNicol plays... more
