Comedy Central has announced the return of its stand-up showcase, Comedy Central Live.In 40 x 5-min episodes from Off The Kerb Productions, Britain’s best new comedic talents take to the stage... more
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Ricky Gervais is donating £1,910,000 ($2.4m) to worldwide animal charities, from the extra profits of the Platinum Tickets for his record-breaking Armageddon tour. Platinum ticket... more
Following their Taskmaster appearances, series 16 constants Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell are teaming up to conquer the podcast movement with Lucy and Sam’s Perfect Brains. The... more
A festive joke about a Christmas cake being ‘stollen’ from the British Museum has been revealed as the winner of the annual competition to find the best new Christmas cracker gags. Jokes about... more
Comedian and chef George Egg has been nominated for an award for his comedy/cooking online content - the Snack Hacker videos that he started making during lockdown. Previous winners of the... more
In a festive first, ahead of the much-anticipated film release of Magic Light Pictures production of Tabby McTat on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Christmas, fans of... more
Famous comic actor Brigit Forsyth has died. She was 83.Forsyth was most famous for playing Thelma, the long-suffering upwardly mobile wife of Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) in Whatever Happened To The... more
Malorie Blackman, Matt Dawson, Chris McCausland and Ranvir Singh do battle for the prizes in this week's run of Richard Osman's House of Games.Blind comedian Chris McCausland has explained to me that... more
Paddy McGuinness has announced a major UK tour, his first since 2016. Starting in Blackburn next October, Paddy’s long-awaited return to stand-up will see him perform 40 dates across the UK in 2024... more
The annual Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian Of The Year Final has taken place with 14 acts battling it out for the top spot.And the winner is...Sallyann Fellowes, who is pictured after the... more
