
Diane Morgan to play a robot in AI sitcom
BBC One comedy co-written with Sarah Kendall
Diane Morgan is to play a humanoid robot created to keep elderly people company in…
BBC One comedy co-written with Sarah Kendall
Diane Morgan is to play a humanoid robot created to keep elderly people company in…
Alice And Steve rounds out its cast
Joel Fry and Marcia Warren have joined the cast of…
BBC calls for tax breaks for comedy
The BBC has commissioned a major report into the ‘substantial’…
Official: Piglets gets a second series
ITV has confirmed that its police training…
Guz Khan is to star alongside Morgana Robinson and…
Rob Brydon is to star in a new BBC One sitcom as a…
Mackenzie Crook creates a new BBC comedy
Sir Michael Palin, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing are…
BBC orders a second series of Only Child
The BBC has ordered a second series of Only Child, its cross-generational sitcom…
The Young Offenders gets a fifth series
The BBC has recommissioned The Young Offenders for a fifth series. Alex…
Lenny Rush to play The Reluctant Vampire
Lenny Rush is to play The Reluctant Vampire in a new supernatural comedy based…
Funboys will return to create more chaos
The BBC has ordered a second series of its Northern Irish comedy Funboys, it has…
The BBC has ordered a second series of its Welsh animated comedy The Golden Cobra. The…
BBC adapts the comic novel Leonard and Hungry Paul
Filming has begun on a new BBC comedy based on Rónán Hession’s…
Steve Coogan has credited his lower-working class upbringing as helping him get ahead…
Spending more money on comedy shows doesn’t make them funnier, the BBC’s…
Aisling Bea discovered that her great-grandfather was an active fighter for Irish…
Hot on the heels of Ludwig, the BBC's new comedy-detective series Death Valley…
The Horne Section TV Show series 2
Would The Horne Section TV Show exist if its frontman…
In keeping with the overwhelming trend in stand-up,…
Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
Today’s stand-up scene can very loosely be divided…
Harun Musho’d: A History of the Last Conservative Government, In Their Own Stupid Words
Harun Musho’d calls this show the ‘worst…
The death of her mother may be dark subject for comedy,…
Ben O’Sullivan: Bermuda Rhombus
The wall behind Ben O’Sullivan displays the Bermudan…
Gig of the day
Lou Sanders: No Kissing in the Bingo Hall
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Michelle Shaughnessy: Too Late, Baby
Southampton The Attic
Friday 30th May from 19:30Book now
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Millwall Jew
Camden Comedy Club
Saturday 24th May from 18:00
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Elf Lyons: Horses
Edinburgh Monkey Barrel
Friday 6th Jun from 20:00Book now
Gig of the day
Mr Swallow In Show Pony
Northampton Royal & Derngate
from 19:30
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Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
Darlington Theatre Hullabaloo
Wednesday 4th Jun from 20:00Book now
FringeRat forages for festival comedy shows
A website has launched to serve up random comedy videos…
Operation Mincemeat release Dear Bill single
The closing track of the Broadway and West End…
Who's on Chortle's 2025 Fast Fringe?
Chortle can today announced the line-up for our Fast Fringe showcase, offering…
Filming starts on comedy movie Blueberry Inn
Jack Davenport is to star in a comedy movie about an emotionally stunted butler…
Iain Stirling starts filming Race Against The Tide
Iain Stirling has started filming Race Against The Tide, the sand sculpture…
PBH Free Fringe launches a London festival
Organisers of Edinburgh’s PBH Free Fringe are launching a three-day mini-festival…
Manchester's Laughterama festival to return
Manchester comedy festival Laughterama is returns to Castlefield Bowl this…
Exeter Comedy Festival returns
Exeter Comedy Festival is back for a second year with twice as many shows. A…
Alex Horne was petrified of killing Jason Mantzoukas with an egg on the current series of Taskmaster. The actor is severely allergic to the breakfast favourite,…
John Shuttleworth puts his Austin Ambassador Y-Reg up for sale
It’s the end of an era: John Shuttleworth is…
Sophie Willan: I'm going to be a mum
Sophie Willan has announced that she’s to become…
How Flight of the Conchords nearly got kicked out of the Edinburgh Fringe
Flight of the Conchords could have been booted out…
Here’s the Horne Section taking a vote on what their next album title should be.
Suggestions included Constantly Pumped, Zero Charisma and Songs About Talcum Powder.
The unrehearsed scene comes from the new series of the band’s TV show that starts on Channel 4 at 10pm.
From The Horne Section TV Show
By Randy Rainbow
Nina Conti's film with Shenoah Allen
Colin Jost and Michael Che's SNL joke swap
Plus Miss Eggy returns to Weekend Update
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