Ruby Wax pulls her Evening With... dates
Citing ‘circumstances outside of my control’
09/09/2026 … Ruby Wax has cancelled a series of live shows citing ‘circumstances outside of my control’.
2026 Archives
Wed 09 September 2026
© Matt Crockett The play will keep going wrong until 2028
Slapstick comedy extends its West End run
09/09/2026 … The Play That Goes Wrong has extended its booking at the Duchess Theatre until January 2028.
© Marc Brenner Dawn French banned from driving
Comic racks up 12 points in 3 years
09/09/2026 … Dawn French has been banned from driving for six months after racking up her fourth speeding ticket in three years.
Watch Alan Carr's emotional night at the National Television Awards
...while Mrs Brown's Boys takes the comedy gong – again
09/09/2026 … Alan Carr won a special recognition prize at the National Television Awards last night – as Mrs Brown's Boys won the comedy category again.
Tue 08 September 2026
Jamie Demetriou and Amelia Dimoldenberg to host SNL UK
Following Jeff Goldblum this week
08/09/2026 … Jamie Demetriou and Amelia Dimoldenberg are to guest-host episodes two and three of Saturday Night UK, it has been announced.
© BBC How I’ve Tried To Change The World by Alexei Sayle
08/09/2026 … Alexei Sayle has already written two autobiographies: Stalin Ate My Homework, which covered his early life, and Thatcher Stole My Trousers, which took him from art…
Finding the light in dark comedy
Dr Zoe Stephenson on what research reveals about people who enjoy bleak humour
08/09/2026 … Finding dark comedy funny does not necessarily mean there is something dark about you.
© MGM-photo by Ted Allan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons What was Groucho Marx's real name?
08/09/2026 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.