Greenwich Comedy Festival 2019 opening night
05/09/2019 … The Greenwich Comedy Festival is always a late-summer treat: a chance to catch top names on a line-up bill, often after they’ve done boot camp of Edinburgh…
Thu 05 September 2019
National Lottery hails Comedy School founder
Surprise to reward 21 years of good work
05/09/2019 … The founder of an organisation that uses comedy for social good is to feature in a National Lottery advert this weekend.
Revealed: The best-reviewed comedy shows on the Edinburgh Fringe
The numbers have been crunched...
05/09/2019 … Foil Arms & Hog had the best-reviewed comedy show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Jamali Maddix: Adventures in Futureland
Preview of his new Channel 4 series
05/09/2019 … Jamali Maddix launches a new Channel 4 series Adventures in Futureland at the weekend – and here are two preview clips.
Leicester festival announces its first shows of 2020
Ed Byrne, Stewart Lee, Milton Jones and more
05/09/2019 … The first shows have been announced for the 2020 Leicester Comedy Festival.
Sky to make an Irish stand-up series
05/09/2019 … Deirdre O’Kane is to front a new stand-up show for Sky One.
A running joke
Paul Tonkinson to release a book about running the London Marathon
05/09/2019 … Stand-up Paul Tonkinson is writing a book about trying to run the London Marathon in under three hours.
How Stephen Fry could have become an MP
Ambitions revealed in an archive letter to Neil Kinnock
05/09/2019 … Current events have shown what happens when a panel-show regular goes into politics.