Celia Pacquola wins Melbourne's top award
18/04/2026 … Celia Pacquola has won the biggest prize in Australian live comedy.
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© Andy Hollingworth Kevin Bridges makes a World Cup documentary
About the state of football as Scotland return to the tournament
17/04/2026 … Kevin Bridges is to make a documentary about the state of modern football, timed to coincide with Scotland’s return to the World Cup for the first time in…
Eric Idle's 55 years in Provence
Python comic writes a memoir about renovation a French property
17/04/2026 … Eric Idle has written a book about the half century he has spent trying to turn a ramshackle property in the south of France into his dream home.
© Scottish Government/CC BY-SA 2.0 SNP promises a minimum wage for comedians
Party set to follow Ireland's £14,700-a-year plan
17/04/2026 … Comedians in Scotland are set to be guaranteed an annual salary of around £15,000 a year if the SNP returns to power in Holyrood, the party has vowed.
Thu 16 April 2026
© Nathan Macgee Steve Coogan joins Funboys
Playing a 'pompous, cruel and petty' man
16/04/2026 … Steve Coogan has joined the second series of BBC comedy Funboys.
James Acaster to star in his first video game
Marble adventure Perchang World drops next month
16/04/2026 … James Acaster has lent his voice to a new video game.
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy James Corden backs ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award again
Rhod Gilbert and Elf Lyons also contribute to biggest prize fund yet
16/04/2026 … James Corden will again be sponsoring the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year, alongside fellow comics Rhod Gilbert and Elf Lyons.
SNL UK is 'smarter and funnier' than the original
– says the man who started it all, Lorne Michaels
16/04/2026 … Saturday Night Live founder Lorne Michaels has hailed the UK version of his venerable show as ‘smarter, funnier and more original’ than its American…