The AI 'comedians' stealing jokes wholesale
'It feels incredibly violating'
Social media parasites are shamelessly stealing comedians' material and remaking…
Joe Lycett is joining Googlebox this week. The comic…
Jimmy Carr announces 2027-28 tour
Jimmy Carr has announced another mammoth tour spanning…
Filming wraps on series three of Black Ops
Filming has wrapped on the third series of BBC comedy…
Apu has been given his voice back in The Simpsons. The…
Bristol Improv Theatre closes unexpectedly
The Bristol Improv Theatre has closed unexpectedly,…
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from…
Inside the turbulent mind of Maria Bamford
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. Sunday October 18 MOCK…
Paul Whitehouse sees off a mugger
Paul Whitehouse has seen off a mugger near his North London home. The…
Comedians join The Madame Blanc Mysteries
Comedians Justin Moorhouse, Zoe Lyons and Jason Manford are to appear in the next…
Rob Delaney to star in comedy-drama about addiction
Rob Delaney is to star in a new comedy-drama about a pop star recovering from addiction. In…
5 to air a celebration of Alan Carr
Channel 5 is to air a documentary celebrating Alan Carr’s life and career in…
Friends is to return to Channel 4 from January. The hit US sitcom originally ran…
Tour news
Features
Why great comedy podcasts are getting harder to find
Ask anyone to name Britain’s biggest comedy podcasts and you’ll get the…
'Yes, this probably is the end of Ghosts'
Laurence Rickard wrote Ghosts with Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas,…
What was the first name of Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
'Trying to be serious is inevitably always so funny'
Last One Laughing returns to Prime Video for a Halloween special, airing from October…
Reviews
Thao Cao: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Funnier
Thao Cao, a dry and deadpan Australian comic, certainly…
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Christopher Hall: Pizazz
Glasgow Stand
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Carl Hutchinson: Fine Whine
Glasgow Glee Club
Thursday 22nd Oct from 19:45Book now
Coming Soon
Hasan Al-Habib: Stuck in the Middle (East) With You
Soho Theatre
Wednesday 21st Oct from 21:15
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Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
Barton-on-Humber The Ropewalk
Saturday 7th Nov from 19:30Book now
Gig of the day
Oh, Mary!
Trafalgar Theatre
from 19:30
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Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens Have Landed!
Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
Friday 30th Oct from 20:00Book now
Other news
Ricky Gervais announces European tour dates for 2027
Ricky Gervais has announced a raft of arena shows across…
Stephen Fry to host next year's Slapstick film gala
Sir Stephen Fry will host the gala evening of silent…
Play That Goes Wrong becomes one of the West End's longest-running shows
The Play That Goes Wrong has entered the list of the longest-running West End shows,…
Sian Gibson, Neil Morrissey and Shobna Gulati are to guest star in the third and…
Who's on series two of Ed Gamble’s Unacceptable!
Ed Gamble’s Unacceptable! will return to TLC from November 8, the broadcaster…
The replacement for the defunct Leicester Comedy Festival is to maintain an annual…
CK Nath wins best show at Women In Comedy festival
CK Nath has won the best show award at the Women In Comedy Festival, with Kimia…
Operation Mincemeat heads to Australia
Comedy musical Operation Mincemeat is to open in Australia next year. The…
Punching Up
Katherine Ryan: I got a facelift eight weeks after giving birth
Katherine Ryan has told of getting a facelift just eight weeks after giving birth to her fourth child. The comedian had originally planned to use the same plastic…
When Rob Beckett's crowd heckled his five-year-old daughter
Comedy crowds can be brutal – even to a…
The West Staines Massiv took over London yesterday…
How a comedian is most likely to win Celebrity Traitors
Comedians are the most likely type of celebrity to…
Videos
George Fouracres and guest host James Norton play pugs being introduced to each other for the first time in this sketch from yesterday’s Saturday Night Live UK.
And they are rather more aggressively formal than your might expect….
Every pug deserves a best friend
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...ie the actor who plays him on the US original
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