Penelope Keith dies at 86
Star of The Good Life and To The Manor Born
Actress Dame Penelope Keith, best known for her roles in The Good Life and To The…
BBC to air The Good Life in tribute to Penelope Keith
The BBC has cleared a gap in its schedule tonight to…
Lucy Porter and Ian Smith pilot new Radio 4 shows
Lucy Porter and Ian Smith are to host new topical comedy…
Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies are heading back to…
Tributes paid to Laughing Horse co-founder Kevin McCarron
Kevin McCarron, one of the co-founders of the Laughing…
Blazing Saddles named the funniest film of all time
The American Film Institute has given Mel Brooks a…
Broad City creator Ilana Glazer hits the UK
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from…
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. Sunday June…
Hardeep Singh Kohli faces 20 charges against five women
Hardeep Singh Kohli is to stand trial on charges of repeatedly raping a woman as…
Filming starts on Am I Being Unreasonable? series 3
Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli have started filming the third and final series…
BBC to air Australian version of Ghosts
The BBC has bought the rights to the Australian remake of Ghosts, to air on BBC Three…
The free-speech warrior who made up his war stories
Striking a bold blow for free speech, comic Mark Normand defended a joke about Muslims…
Ray Winstone to star in action comedy Danger Money
Ray Winstone is to star in a new action comedy series for Amazon’s…
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Features
People don’t connect with perfection, they connect with people
There is a moment in my current show where I have to perform 20 impressions chosen…
Did Reginald D Hunter study drama at Rada?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
The Comedian: A poem by Joshua Seigal
Here's an exclusive, previously unpublished piece from poet and children's…
'Bursting at the seams with gags, goofs, and good songs'
Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London…
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Rhys Nicholson films stand-up special
Rhys Nicholson is filming a comedy special in Melbourne…
Ford Kiernan wins two Scottish podcast awards
Still Game star Ford Kiernan was the big winner at…
Bottom guide released as an audiobook
Lee Cornes – who played pub landlord Dick Head in Bottom – has recorded…
BBC and UKTV seek the next big comedy entertainment hit
TV production companies are being asked to pitch ideas for the next big comedy entertainment…
BBC hails Michael McIntyre's social media reach
The BBC has been hailing the social media success of Michael McIntyre’s Big…
Comics join the cast of Mog’s Bad Thing
John Thomson, Katherine Parkinson and Mawaan Rizwan have joined the voice cast…
High Life musical sccops stage award
A stage musical based on 1990s TV comedy The High Life has scooped an accolade at…
Comedy mag Chaff announces its short story winners
Comedy magazine Chaff has announced the winners of its first short story competition,…
Punching Up
Paul Smith: I chartered a plane after leaving my passport in the hotel
Paul Smith has told how he chartered a plane to get to a gig in Belfast after arriving at the airport without his passport. The comic recently had two gigs in…
Alan Carr's castle contents sell-off
More than 400 unwanted items from the Scottish castle…
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Videos
Munya Chawawa has said farewell to Keir Starmer in his usual style…
The comic also included some World Cup tropes in his song, as well as swipes at the likes of Tommy Robinson and Russell Brand.
Here is So Replaceable, by ‘Kei-yoncé’:
Munya Chawawa says farewell to Keir Starmer
So Replaceable, by ‘Kei-yoncé’
Mock The Week on Andy Burnham and the heatwave
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New trailer for Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
With Dani Dyer in her first animation voice acting…