Tour Dates for Emotional Daredevil Alexander Bennett

Alexander Bennett’s comedy has been variously described as dark, silly, filthy and thoughtful. He is the co-host, along with comedian Andy Barr, and creator of the high concept Chortle Award nominated podcast Born Yesterday, which has had guests including Phil Wang, Jordan Gray and John Kearns. He has performed his shows on the West End at London's prestigious Soho Theatre. This show is recommended by the British Comedy Guide and had a joke featured in The Times' top jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Comedy Swots Line-Up For Christmas University Challenge

Taskmaster star Emma Sidi is among the comedians taking part in this year's celebrity Christmas editions of University Challenge chaired by Amol Rajan (pictured). Also in the line-ups are Jessica Fostekew, Jamie MacDonald, Danny Robins and Debra Stephenson.

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First Images For New Comedy Drama Video Nasty

The BBC has released new pictures for Video Nasty, a six part original comedy drama written by Hugh Travers, set to air in January 2025.

It will be broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in the UK, Virgin Media Television in the Republic of Ireland and ARD-Mediathek in Germany.

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Ferdia Lennon Wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

At a time when cracking open a bottle of the best bubbly and curling up with a laugh-out-loud novel seems more appealing than ever, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2024 has been awarded to Ferdia Lennon for his exquisitely unique and funny debut novel Glorious Exploits, published by Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.

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2025 Tour for Matt Richardson

Being loud, brazen and a little bit lairy was all Matt needed to propel himself onto the comedy circuit aged 18 and be presenting national telly by 22. But faster than you can say ‘Celebrity Coach Trip’ he suddenly finds himself in his 30s, so what’s next for the lad?

Matt has moved to the countryside, settled down, and is trying his hardest to not make rude jokes. It’s not going as well as he’d hoped...

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BBC Studios Announces Partnership With Armando Iannucci’s Touchscreen

BBC Studios and Touchscreen Limited have today announced their UK development partnership.

The agreement will see BBC Studios and Touchscreen, founded by Armando Iannucci, work together to develop and co-produce innovative, daring and world-class scripted programming for the UK and international markets, distributed by BBC Studios.

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Michael Palin Presents Rarely Screened Early Comedy At BFI Event

The BFI’s annual ‘Missing Believed Wiped’ event returns to BFI Southbank next Saturday 7 December to celebrate some of the long thought lost classic television titles rediscovered in the last year. Full details on both sessions have just been announced and are now available here

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Peter Kay Adds Record-Breaking Date To London Run

Peter Kay has announced his 48th performance at The O2 in London on Saturday 26th July 2025 as part of his current record-breaking comedy tour which started in Manchester, December 2022. His 48th performance will overtake performance records held by Prince, who performed 21 nights at the historic venue and Take That who previously held the record with 39 shows.

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New Unscripted Interview Show From Chloe Radcliffe

A new unscripted interview show from Chloe Radcliffe (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, COMMAND Z from Steven Soderbergh), In Tandem with Chloe Radcliffe is like Comedians In Cars for less successful people.

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Tour Dates For Marjolein Robertson

Marjolein Robertson, Shetland-born standup and storyteller, takes her award-nominated show ‘O’ on tour in 2025 following her run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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