The line-up has been confirmed for the NATYS Top of the Bill Showcase in January.
The late Harry Secombe’s son Andrew Secombe has been cast in his father’s role in new episodes of Radio 4’s The Missing Hancocks, which are being recorded this weekend in London.
Jon Richardson is co-hosting an edition of The One Show live on BBC1 for the very first time tonight. Richardson will be co-presenting the weekday tea-time show alongside regular host Alex Jones with Nicole Scherzinger as tonight's special guest.
The grumpy, pedantic comedian has recently announced his biggest UK tour yet, entitled The Old Man. Dates here.
The Comedy Cafe, one of the oldest comedy clubs in London, is to close after 26 years.
Andrew Sachs, the actor who will always be known as Manuel from Fawlty Towers, has died. He was 86.
Reports say that he had been suffering from dementia and died in a care home.
Sachs had a long career and in recent years had appeared in Coronation Street and Casualty. In 2008 he became embroiled in the scandal that became known as Sachsgate when Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left a rude message on his answerphone.
Last night Beyond The Joke gave away who had been evicted from I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in the headline and spoilt the fun for viewers who planned to watch the programme on catch-up. So this time we have been vague in the headline and will reprint a joke Joel Dommett told in the programme before revealing the results further down the page so that the Facebook intro doesn't give the latest news away either.
"In the new Fast and the Furious movie they have new aerodynamics on the cars. Spoiler Alert."
Comedian Olaf Falafel has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins Children’s Books. The former art director will both write and illustrate the books.
Olaf put out a call for a publisher for his picture book on Twitter on November 22nd, igniting a frenzy of interest from publishers and agents alike. Within 24 hours, Alice Blacker, Picture Books Publishing Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books had secured the deal from Jo Unwin at JULA Ltd.
The first major names have been announced for next year's Teenage Cancer Trust comedy night.
Jo Brand, Kevin Bridges and Romesh Ranganathan will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. More names to be announced.
The musical acts playing the annual week of fundraising gigs organised by Roger Daltrey will include The Who, The Pet Shop Boys, Paul Weller and Olly Murs.
Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am on Friday 2nd December from:
Comedian Joel Dommett has survived the first I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here vote.
But Danny Baker was voted off. "My winning personality once again descends upon the nation...I've had the time of me life," he said.
Dommett is well liked by viewers who have enjoyed seeing him stripped to the waist and bravely doing bushtucker trials.
A major power cut in Central London on Friday night forced Ed Gamble to cancel the final gig of his UK tour.
Gamble was supposed to be performing his show at the Leicester Square Theatre but early in the evening the power went out around the area and the venue was plunged into darkness. Gamble tweeted: "London has got Black Friday all wrong".
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