A North London-based charity supporting positive mental health through stand-up comedy has received £120,000 of National Lottery funding. Using comedy rather than medical intervention, The Comedy... more
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Camp Bestival has revealed the 2019 comedy headliners heading to Camp Bestival’s Big Top at Lulworth Castle, July 25th - 28th. Leading the laughs will be award-winning comedian and actor Omid... more
Inside No. 9, Derry Girls and Romesh Ranganathan are among the winners at this year's RTS Awards.Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith won Best Performance – Male, for their acting in Inside No. 9.... more
Legendary performance space The Boulevard Theatre in Soho is to re-open following susbtantial renovations.Fawn James (director of Soho Estates) has announced the launch of the Boulevard Theatre... more
Alan Partridge had a classic awkward encounter on his BBC series This Time when he met his Irish doppelganger in the fourth episode of the series.In a section of the spoof magazine show on lookalikes... more
Comedian Al Murray stars in a new adaptation of Vanity Fair on BBC Radio 4, starting 26 May. He will play his great-great-great grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray, the author and narrator... more
The Chortle Awards have been announced.For the full Club awards which were announced yesterday click here. For the other winners see below. BEST NEWCOMERSarah Keyworth BEST MCKiri Pritchard-... more
2Northdown, the live comedy venue in King’s Cross, has announced the result of its inaugural New Act Comedy Competition, following two months of heats that saw its panel of judges whittle down 120... more
Nish Kumar, Jason Byrne, Mark Watson and Luisa Omielan are among the comics lined up for the inaugural Big Funny Fest, Richmond’s first comedy festival taking place over Father’s Day weekend, the 15... more
Update 16/4: Following his run at London’s Leicester Square Theatre and in advance of his new stand-up tour, Showbiz, Frank Skinner is to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – the... more
