Tributes have been to Irish comic Jon Kenny, who died yesterday at the age of 66. He had suffered a heart attack last Sunday and had not regained since. Kenny started his career in the 1980s in the ...

Judges awarded Chris McCausland 37 points on tonight's Strictly Come Dancing, his highest score yet on the show. The comedian's dance partner Dianne Buswell was weeping when the score was announced, ...

Harry Enfield has joined the line-up of next year’s Slapstick comedy festival, making a rare live stage appearance to talk about his career. He will be interviewed by Robin Ince at the Bristol Old Vic ...

Glenn Moore was nominated for best show at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. As a newcomer he was runner-up in the 2011 Chortle Student Comedy Award, and finalist in So You Think You're Funny 2012 ...

Filming has finally begun on Jordan Gray ’s sitcom Transaction – more than two years after it was first announced. In the six ...

By packaging jaw-dropping circus skills with burlesque raunch, David Bates was pivotal in reinventing cabaret when he launched La Clique at the Edinburgh Fringe 20 years ago.

Given all the opportunities the BBC can afford, it’s no surprise that their New Comedy Award attracts the cream of emerging comedians – and the final of this year’s contest, hosted in Birmingham by ...

Here’s the first look at what the cast of Outnumbered look like now – eight years after their last outing and 17 years after ...

Cross – known on TV for Arrested Development, Mr Show and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret – will be playing five days of his The End Of The Beginning Of The End Tour in April.

The line-up has been announced for the next Taskmaster’s New Year Treat. Competing for Greg Davies ’s golden eyebrows in the one-off show are former England and Liverpool footballer David James, ...

‘Very demure, very mindful,’ ALOK has the difficult task of balancing earnestness and comedy. That they don’t shy away from weighty issues, from feeling overwhelmed with disgust at their physical ...

He was 15 minutes into his comedy show Undoctored at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday when an audience member shouted: ‘Medic!' And luckily there were plenty in the room, as Kay tends to attract a ...