March 7th 2015 would have been Rik Mayall’s 57th birthday and to mark the occasion Radio 4 Extra brings listeners the first radio broadcast of The Last Hurrah - Interview with the... more
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This year's Chortle Awards nominations have been announced. Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award 2014 Panel Prize winners Funz & Gamez lead the pack with four nominations. The full list of nominees is... more
Rob Delaney, the co-star of acclaimed Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, has announced live shows in the UK in June. He will be appearing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall from Wednesday, June 24 to Friday,... more
A group of stand-up comedians is going to attempt to perform a gig on the world’s highest mountain in October 2015. This follows plans to do the Everest gig last year, which had to be postponed.Among... more
Comedy costume drama Hunderby is to return to Sky Atlantic with a two-hour Christmas special. Sky has announced that filming due to commence this Spring.It had previously been reported that there... more
A new comedy night opens in London this Thursday called Guerilla Busfare and you have to admire its ambitious manifesto: “It’s a celebration of creative, alternative comedy and it comes in all shapes... more
Leo Kearse has been crowned UK Pun Champion 2015. The 38-year-old Scot won the award at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival this evening in a fiercely fought final showdown against Welshman Rob Thomas.... more
British online comedy creators Jack and Dean have struck a deal with New Form Digital, the online studio formed by Discovery Communications and Hollywood veterans Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, to... more
It's the final of the second UK Pun Championships tonight at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival. The eight finalists will take part in the comedy equivalent of a rap battle, going up against each other... more
Goodness Gracious Me’s Sanjeev Bhaskar has confirmed that the cast will be reuniting for another special edition of the acclaimed British-Asian sketch show. Earlier today he tweeted “Scripts being... more
