The Change to return
Second series for Bridget Christie comedy
Bridget Christie’s comedy The Change is to return for a second series. Filming…
Paul Whitehouse to front a new sketch show series
Paul Whitehouse is to host a four-part celebration…
New tours for Shaparak Khorsandi and Chloe Petts
Shaparak Khorsandi and Chloe Petts have announced new…
The beginning of the end for Inside No 9
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this…
Losing a ball... and gaining a family
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from…
20 unreleased Frank Sidebottom tracks coming out on CD
Twenty previously unreleased Frank Sidebottom tracks…
Dave Chappelle's attacker sues the venue where it happened
The man who attacked Dave Chappelle on stage is suing…
Mark Steel: My cancer has gone
Mark Steel is now cancer-free. The comic broke the news on social media, writing:…
George Egg wins a culinary prize
Comedian and cook George Egg has won an award for his comedy cooking videos. The…
Inside No 9 to hit the West End
Inside No 9 is to become a stage play. Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are…
First 2024 Chortle Student Comedy finalists named
The first finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award have been named. Getting…
Gavin and Stacey is to return for one last episode on Christmas Day. James Corden…
Irish comedian Michael Downey dies
Tributes have been paid to Irish comedian Michael Downey, after his family announced…
Features
It’s got all the elements for the perfect Inside No.9.
As Inside No 9 returns for its ninth and final season, Reece Shearsmith and Steve…
Real comedy, real trauma
Comedy is opening up spaces for silences to be broken and trauma stories to be told. In…
What is the name of the police station in The Thin Blue Line?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
The man who sent a thousand weird theatre kids to clown school
Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the best comedy he's been watching in…
Reviews
Live comedy picks
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Grant for funny female filmmakers
A £1,000 bursary to help an up-and-coming female…
Adam Flood and Alexandra Haddow to record their specials
Adam Flood and Alexandra Haddow are to record their…
Alan Carr's Changing Ends to return this summer
ITV has confirmed that the second series Alan Carr’s semi autobiographical…
Netflix announces seven new stand-up specials
Netflix has announced seven new stand-up specials. Ali Wong, Bert Kreischer,…
Victorious Festival 2024 announces its comedy lineup
Russell Howard, Frankie Boyle and Al Murray are to headline the Victorious Festival…
'We need help to sustain this success'
Organisers of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival have warned the event’s…
Stewart Lee has been added to the bill of this year’s Latitude Festival. The…
Tina Fey and Steve Carell to star in new Netflix comedy
Tina Fey and Steve Carell are to star in a new Netflix comedy called The Four Seasons. It…
Punching Up
Mackenzie Crook sells his 1977 Triumph TR7
Mackenzie Crook has sold his 1977 Triumph TR7, as featured in his TV hit Detectorists. The classic car featured in at three series of the comedy, driven by Toby…
Joe Lycett is to attend the Baftas dressed as Queen…
Camilla Cleese pens a comedy about nepo babies
John Cleese’s daughter Camilla has written a…
I see stand-up as a stepping stone to television
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Videos
Here Robin Ince recalls the moment he brought a pornographic magazine into a church pulpit in this video…
The Penthouse belonged to his father Nigel, and the comic used it while delivering a eulogy at his dad’s funeral, which happened on his 93rd birthday.
One year on and Ince goes through his dad’s vast collection of books in The Origins of a Bibliomaniac, a documentary made as part of his Bibliomanic series on the Cosmic Shambles network, from which this clip comes.
Robin Ince bring porn into the pulpit
..at his father's funeral
Jerry Seinfeld on Saturday Night Live
On the Weekend Update segment
From Broken News
Young Offenders series 4 trailer
Conor and Jock are back