This year's Laugharne Weekend Festival will go ahead as planned. There was a risk that the future of the unique South Wales Festival was in jeopardy following the shock withdrawal of an annual £20,... more
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The BFI on London's South Bank is to screen two episodes of the second series of Ricky Gervais' acclaimed comedy drama After Life in advance of the programme premiering on Netflix.The screenings will... more
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Mat Ewins (Harry Hill’s Clubnite, Live from the BBC) has joined forces with double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns to... more
Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Russell Howard, Jack Whitehall, London Hughes and Mo Gilligan are among the comedians set to film performances at a Los Angeles comedy festival to be broadcast on Netflix.... more
Jason Byrne is back for more comedy chaos, celebrating 25 years of touring. Audience Precipitation is a new fun, happy and joyful show from ‘the outright king of live comedy’ (The Times). The 31-date... more
Award-winning comedian Joe Lycett has changed his name to Hugo Boss by deed poll. Lycett announced his change of name on social media, tagging the company and writing: "So @HUGOBOSS (... more
Channel 4 and Amazon Studios have announced the commission of Frank of Ireland, a new series from Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman starring Brian Gleeson. A co-production... more
Following critical acclaim, a sell-out Edinburgh run and filling venues up and down the country so far this year, extra autumn dates have been added to Simon Evans’ tour The Work of the Devil.... more
Marcus Brigstocke, Suzi Ruffell, Nick Revell (all pictured) and Dominic Holland are among the top stand-ups performing at a special gala show to raise money for Cancer Research UK. The one-off... more
Comedians and venues who took part in Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 have been announced as nominees in the annual awards organised to celebrate the event. Best show nominees include Alex Hylton,... more
