Given all the opportunities the BBC can afford, it’s no surprise that their New Comedy Award attracts the cream of emerging comedians – and the final of this year’s contest, hosted in Birmingham by ...

Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

Satirical website The Onion has bought the far-right website Infowars. The new owners say they plan to turn the former hate factory into ‘a very stupid website’.

Belfast is to host the next BBC Comedy Festival, it has been announced today. The event will be a chance for producers, both established and new, to celebrate and explore comedy in the UK, and aims to ...

Here’s the first look at what the cast of Outnumbered look like now – eight years after their last outing and 17 years after ...

Kiwi comic Rhys Darby is returning to the stage with a new stand-up show, The Legend Returns. A total of 19 UK and one Irish date have been announced for the tour, which is is first in nearly a decade ...

'An AI Tommy Tiernan would be like a perfectly-cooked steak… made entirely of tofu. Technically, it *might* look the part, but it’ll lack that essential… *je ne sais quoi*. That primal scream of the ...

Johnny Vegas is reviving Ideal – as a stage show. The comic will be reprising his role as small-scale weed dealer Moz in a 20th anniversary production at the Lowry, Salford next year.

He was 15 minutes into his comedy show Undoctored at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday when an audience member shouted: ‘Medic!' And luckily there were plenty in the room, as Kay tends to attract a ...

Paul Hilleard has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award. He was crowned at a final at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham that was broadcast on BBC One tonight. ‘Sound, innit? Nice,’ he said after ...

Piff the Magic Dragon’s canine companion Mr Piffles has died just shy of his 17th birthday. The Flamingo in Las Vegas, where ...

Never seen before images from the personal archive of the late Terry Jones are to be exhibited in his Colwyn Bay birthplace. News of the show comes as a crowdfunder to erect a statue of the Monty ...