Sara Pascoe wins Jilly Cooper book award
Comedy Women In Print unveil their winners
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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…
This Cruel Little Man is on tour...
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from…
Scott Bennett's stand-up show hits Radio 4
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this…
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…
Have I Got News For You audience cheer as they find out Andrew is no longer a prince
The news that Andrew is no longer a prince broke doing the recording of tonight’s…
Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show 'shelved'
The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show will not be returning to the BBC. Today’s…
Elliot Steel to front slap-fighting documentary
Comedian Elliot Steel is to front a documentary about the new, controversial sport…
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 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…
'I've said terrible things... but as long as it’s funny, I think it’s forgivable'
As Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole? starts on Comedy Central next week, the comedian…
Reviews
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Jason Manford: A Manford All Seasons
Middleton Arena
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Josh Baulf: Lovely Stuff
Sheffield The Steamworks
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Chester Alexander's
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Alan Davies: Think Ahead
Manchester Opera House
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Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie
Soho Theatre
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Helen Bauer: Bless Her
Newcastle Stand
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Other news
Mark Thomas to release a vinyl LP
Mark Thomas is to release his stand-up show Gaffa…
Nottingham Comedy Festival announces its best joke nominees
The shortlist for the best joke of the Nottingham comedy…
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…
BBC to rerun Fawlty Towers episode
An episode of Fawlty Towers is to air on BBC One tonight in tribute to Prunella Scales,…
Kate Berlant returns to the UK
American comedian Kate Berlant is to play the Soho Theatre Walthamstow next year,…
Punching Up
Prince Andrew: The Musical stripped of its honours
Channel 4 has issued a statement saying that it has ‘initiated the formal process to remove the style, title and honours of Prince Andrew: The Musical’. The…
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…
Jamali Maddix: I cried before my first stand-up gig
Jamali Maddix has admitted crying before his first…
Videos
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been making headline both sides of the Atlantic after being stripped of his titles and Royal Lodge residence.
And on this week’s Have I Got News For You US, the panel tore into the Jeffrey Epstein’s old pal.
Podcast host Jennifer Welch and journalist Max Chafkin joined host Roy Wood Jr and regular panellists , Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black for this week’s edition of the CNN show:
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
Medication for those allergic to commitment
A flatshare horror