Taskmaster plans a live tour
Producers ask fans where Greg Davies and Alex Horne should visit
Greg Davies and Alex Horne are set to take Taskmaster on the road. Avalon, the…
Jason Manford to star in Something Rotten!
Jason Manford is to return to the stage in the comedy…
Madeleine Brettingham wins Beat The Frog's 'world series'
Madeleine Brettingham won the Beat The Frog World Series…
Sara Pascoe wins Jilly Cooper book award
Sara Pascoe’s debut novel has won a literary…
The authors of a book about Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson…
The Ballad Of Wallis Island up for five indie film awards
Tim Key and Tom Basden’s movie The Ballad Of…
Josh Pugh starts filming his Channel 4 comedy
Filming has begun on Josh Pugh’s Channel 4 sitcom.…
You Heard It Here First to return
Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of Chris McCausland's panel show You…
This Cruel Little Man is on tour...
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,824 events…
Scott Bennett's stand-up show hits Radio 4
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. Monday November 3 RICHARD…
Terry Jones archive to be preserve
Terry Jones’s archive has been donated to the British Film Institute for perseveration. The…
Michael McIntyre makes £2million in a year
Michael McIntyre’s wealth grew £2million last year, Companies House documents…
Lewis Hamilton plans a TV comedy
Lewis Hamilton has his sights set on making a sitcom. The driving ace has his…
Tour news
New dates added
Josh Jones: I Haven’t Won The Lottery So Here’s Another Tour Show
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Features
Who voiced Joy in Inside Out?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
Who sang the theme tune to Twenty Twelve?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
Prunella Scales: Seven classic performances
As Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies at 93, here's just a small selection…
Into The Spider-Verse of Taskmaster's foreign remakes...
Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London…
Reviews
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Evening With The Fast Show
Portsmouth Guildhall
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John Robertson: Plays with the Audience
Chester Alexander's
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Alan Davies: Think Ahead
Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Friday 7th Nov from 19:30Book now
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Nick Helm: No One Gets Out Alive
Sheffield The Foundry
Wednesday 19th Nov from 19:30Book now
Gig of the day
Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie
Soho Theatre
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Hal Cruttenden: Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It
Tunbridge Wells Trinity Theatre
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Other news
Gabby Logan to host Have I Got News For You
New Match Of The Day presenter Gabby Logan is …
Johnny Vegas wants to get Britain drawing
Johnny Vegas has been announced as the November featured…
Mark Thomas to release a vinyl LP
Mark Thomas is to release his stand-up show Gaffa Tapes as a limited edition…
Nottingham Comedy Festival announces its best joke nominees
The shortlist for the best joke of the Nottingham comedy festival have been announced, Chosen…
Two Doors Down Live adds extra dates
Five extra performances have been added to the Two Doors Down Live show at Glasgow’s…
Eddie Izzard goes back to school
Eddie Izzard is to give primary school pupils a private Shakespearean performance. The…
Famous faces relaunch a 60-seat pub theatre
Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Mel Giedroyc are among the household names helping…
Beat the Frog 2025 finalists announced
Manchester’s Frog and Bucket Comedy Club has announced the ten finalists for…
Punching Up
Carl Donnelly gets into the Christmas spirit(s) again
Carl Donnelly is to take on his social media advent calendar challenge again this year: drinking his way through 24 mystery miniatures All the…
Prince Andrew: The Musical stripped of its honours
Channel 4 has issued a statement saying that it has…
Coopers 'are related to Dick Turpin'
Daisy May and Charlie Cooper have been told they are…
Sold! A fish with the face of Graham Chapman
A fish with the face of Graham Chapman has sold for…
Videos
Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of A Man On The Inside.
Ted Danson returns as Charles, and – having investigated thefts in a retirement home in series one – now goes undercover on a college campus.
The comedy was created by Michael Schur, the man behind The Good Place and Parks and Recreation.
A Man On The Inside Season 2 premieres on November 20.
A Man On The Inside Season 2 trailer
Ted Danson returns
Jimmy Carr on Jimmy Fallon's show
Speaking about his weird laugh
Have I Got News For You US on 'Prince' Andrew
Roy Wood Jr and the panel wade in
Weekend Update on another week in Trumpland
With Colin Jost and Michael Che