Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips are among the stars of films featured in this year's London Comedy Film Festival. The full programme of the festival, which runs from April 20 - May 1... more
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Nick Helm is releasing his "surprisingly easy" second album – Nick Helm Is Fucking Amazing. It will be available from April 14. And on the same date he is playing a one-off gig at the forum in... more
Tickets for the London run of Groundhog Day, the new musical by Tim Minchin, will go on general sale on Tuesday 12 April at noon.The show will run at the Old Vic for a strictly limited 10-... more
Update 31/3/16: Stewart Lee, yes, Stewart Lee and Josie Long, yes, Josie Long, have been added to the line-up below. The line-up has been announced for next month's Teenage Cancer Trust comedy... more
The BBC has announced a landmark sitcom season to mark 60 years since Galton and Simpson’s Hancock’s Half Hour started on BBC Television. The season of programming across BBC One, BBC Two... more
Diet of Worms, the Irish sketch group behind BBC4 comedy The Walshes, is making a pilot for Radio 4. Kült is about a group of five lowly but loveable Irish employees of a massive global... more
Jo Brand is to return as Kim Wilde – her character in Getting On – in Going Forward, a new three-part comedy series that turns the spotlight on domiciliary care, along with the patched-up domestic... more
Rising star Joe Lycett is to record his debut stand-up DVD this May, to be released later this year.The Birmingham comic has just added the filming date to his current That's The Way, A-Ha A-Ha... more
The death of producer Michael White has been announced. He was 80. In comedy circles he was most famous for his work with Monty Python and The Comic Strip.White was a legendary figure in showbusiness... more
George Martin, who has died aged 90, will always be remembered as the man who produced the Beatles. But before working with the Fab Four he was already well-established as the man behind the mixing... more
