The Wells Comedy Festival has announced its second round of shows to welcome big names, festival favourites and incredible new talent to the celebratory tenth anniversary festival.
Sara Pascoe (Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, The Great British Sewing Bee) returns to Wells with a brand new work-in-progress show and Taskmaster champion, co-host of mega-hit podcast Off Menu and host of The Traitors: Uncloaked and Taskmaster the Podcast <
The latest guest on Dish from Waitrose, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE is Romesh Ranganathan,
Romesh talks about the West End, marriage, and why the perfect Romesh show still hasn’t happened.
After watching new series Small Prophets I wanted to catch up on Dinosaur to compare them. Like Small Prophets, the second series of Ashley Storrie's comedy about love, autism and paleontology is also all available on iPlayer. In some ways the shows are very similar, in some ways they are very different.
Taskmaster and Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping star Stevie Martin is extending her acclaimed debut UK tour, clout for the second time to 100 dates with more shows added in Autumn 2026. Following on from two sold out London Soho Theatre runs, with multiple dates at London’s Bloomsbury added due to demand, Stevie kicks off her 2026 tour dates with an already sold-out performance at The Glee Birmingham on Tuesday 3rd March.
Comedians Fern Brady and Alison Spittle are to launch a new podcast, Ignore That Feeling, with new episodes released weekly from Tuesday 10 February 2026. The podcast will be available to listen to on all major podcast platforms, and is hosted by Acast. The podcast will also be available to watch as full visualised episodes on YouTube.
Series two of Dinosaur, starring, written and created by Ashley Storrie, will land on BBC iPlayer on Thursday 5 February from 6am and is on the BBC Scotland channel on the same day from 9pm. The series will broadcast on BBC Three from Saturday 7 February at 10pm and 10.30pm followed by a release on Hulu later that month.
Leicester Comedy Festival, the largest and longest-running comedy festival in Europe launches tomorrow, running until 22 February with more than 700 shows taking place across the county.
This Valentine’s Day, BBC Radio 4 will pair two original comedy specials exploring the highs and lows of searching for love: Fatiha El-Ghorri’s real-life journey back into romance after divorce, and Regency renegade Lady Clementine's foray into the world of modern dating.
The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith celebrates the milestone of 500 episodes – the 500th edition features US comic/musician Reggie Watts.
Launched in March 2012, the show delves into the minds of the funniest comedians in the world, asking them in depth about how they do it, and how they cope with the challenges of a creative life. Previous guests include Dara Ó Briain, Bill Burr, Sindhu Vee, Sarah Millican and Patton Oswalt.
Comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri is embarking on her first ever stand-up tour. The Taskmaster star is ready to hit the road to serve up her one-of-a-kind and award-winning stand-up.
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