The broadcaster’s chief content officer, Ian Katz, said that one episode ‘has broken the record for the most number of C-words I have had to sign off on than any other programme. so if you’re ...

British improv rapper Chris Turner has made the semi-finals of America’s Got Talent. The Manchester-born comic performed live to millions of viewers on NBC last night, with no script and only audience ...

Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his officers had no choice but to arrest Graham Linehan over his anti-trans tweets. Officers at Heathrow, who are routinely armed, arrested the Father ...

The Paper – the new mockumentary spin-off from The Office – has been renewed for a second series the day before its first drops in the US. Show stars Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore revealed ...

Alternative comedy magazine Chaff is inviting submissions of its fourth edition. The magazine was set up by comedian Will BF and comedy producer Amber Ash, and recently published an Edinburgh Fringe ...

My Family star Robert Lindsay and Marina Bye from the Siblings double act have joined the cast of Channel 4’s hit comedy Big Mood. The news was announced as Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan and Lydia ...

The comic asks his guests Joe Thomas, London Hughes and Harriet Kemsley about what their algorithms serve them online. And he soon finds out that deadpan Thomas and livewire Hughes bring very ...

Brennan Reece has won an award for having the best joke at the Creatures Comedy Festival in Manchester. His winning gag was: ‘An online troll recently said I was "average". Which I thought was mean.

Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence via social media posts. The Father Ted co-creator told how five armed officers greeted him off a plane from ...

Sky executive Phil Edgar-Jones said: ‘The Sky Arts Awards remain the only night of the year in which all the arts are recognised at once. Poets and sopranos join actors, writers, dancers and musicians ...

Animated comedy The Golden Cobra has been nominated for two Welsh Bafta awards.

John Cleese has made one of his regular moans about the BBC, complaining there’s ‘been nothing funny since The Office’. The 85-year-old also repeated his complaints that the corporation is too ...