Actor/comedian Omid Djalili is to star in a new stage version of Fiddler on the Roof.The production will be part of the new season of plays at the Chichester Festival under artistic director... more
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Jason Simms has been appointed new director of drama and comedy at Sky Vision, the production and distribution arm of Sky. He will take up the role on March 20 and will report to managing director of... more
Comic Relief has announced the start of filming for Red Nose Day Actually by writer and director Richard Curtis. The short film revisits the characters of hit movie Love Actually by Curtis to... more
Filming has begun on the new BBC One comedy, Hospital People. Familiar faces appearing in the fictional Brimlington Hospital through the series will include Sally Phillips (Miranda), Russell... more
BBC Store, the digital download-to-own service, has released some rarely seen and previously unavailable-to-buy episodes of classic comedy series The Goodies starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme... more
After more than 100 dates on the road in 2016 with his last show and a similarly epic effort with his previous tour, Mark Watson is amazed to find there are still some areas of the... more
Birmingham comedian Lovdev Barpaga was crowned UK Pun Champion last night at the Leicester Comedy Festival. Here are some of Barpaga's top gags:I think my Colombian neighbour's a drug lord, but... more
Birmingham comedian Lovdev Barpaga has been crowned UK Pun Champion 2017, winning the final at the Leicester Comedy Festival.After the eight acts were narrowed down to the last two of Barpaga... more
Report by Claire Smith.Romesh Ranganathan was on the point of giving up comedy after the death of his father, he told an audience at Leicester Comedy Festival. The comic, recently named the... more
Two of his weekend’s major comedy gigs have been eventful and not just for the comedy taking place onstage.At Jack Whitehall’s First Direct Arena gig in Leeds on Friday night part of the stage set... more
