Mo Gilligan to make a Netflix documentary
As his next special drops next month
Mo Gilligan is making a documentary for Netflix. Few details of the new programme…
Tom Allen quits The Apprentice: You’re Fired
Tom Allen is leaving The Apprentice: You’re Fired…
Together at last, Jack Whitehall and Kim Kardashian
Jack Whitehall is to star alongside Kim Kardashian…
Hannah Gadsby releases an audio-only special to ‘subvert the male gaze’
Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby has released …
Mock The Week return date announced
The revived Mock the Week will launch on February 1…
Roy Hudd to be honoured with a statue
Plans have been submitted to erect a statue of…
British Comedy Guide announces its 2025 award nominees
The shortlists have been announced for the British…
Ricky Gervais scoops another Golden Globe
Ricky Gervais won the 2025 Golden Globe for best performance in stand-up comedy last…
Harry Hill returns with a video podcast
Harry Hill is launching a video podcast. The comedian this morning released a…
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Sue Perkins shares her Eternal Shame
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,840 events…
Netflix appoints its first UK head of comedy
Netflix has appointed its first UK head of comedy – signalling a bigger…
John Mulaney calls off Minneapolis shows as tensions rise
American comic John Mulaney has called off his shows in Minneapolis this weekend…
Tour news
Features
I crawled off stage... nothing can embarrass me now!
Dubai-based Indian comic Saaniya Abbas is bringing her Edinburgh Fringe hit Hellarious…
How much do you know about the Carry On actors?
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Just 12 days in, and I might have already seen the best comedy show of 2026
Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London. Cooking…
Margaret Cho on substance abuse, body shaming and escaping an abusive relationship
Margaret Cho has opened up about substance abuse, becoming sober, escaping an abusive…
Reviews
Leicester Square Theatre’s New Comedian Of The Year 2025
Leicester Square Theatre’s New Comedian Of The…
Live comedy picks
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Other news
Trevor Noah to host Grammy Awards for a final time
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Rosie Jones cast in new stage play
Rosie Jones is to appear in a new stage production…
Live Comedy Association announces its AGM line-up
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Catherine Bohart to release a free special
Comedian Catherine Bohart's Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show Again, With…
Simon Mayhew-Archer launches a production company
Comedy writer-producer Simon Mayhew-Archer has launched a new production company,…
Glasgow Comedy Festival announces full 2026 line-up
The Glasgow International Comedy Festival has announced its full programme for 2026,…
Nikki Glaser announces London and Dublin dates
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Air date for Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets
The BBC has given a provisional broadcast date for Mackenzie Crook’s new comedy…
Punching Up
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Videos
Foil Arms and Hog imagine the social media algorithm was a person in their latest comedy sketch.
In it the Irish trio – Sean 'Foil' Finegan, Conor 'Arms' McKenna and Sean 'Hog' Flanagan – show a web user trying to better themselves, only to be foiled by their viewing history.
The video also promotes their three-night run at the London Palladium on March 12 to 14.
If the algorithm was a person
From Foil Arms and Hog
Nikki Glaser's Golden Globes monologue
Including jokes about Leonardo DiCaprio, Wicked:…
British comedy film with Martin Clunes, Mark Addy,…
Trailer for a new film about comedian Dave Thompson…