Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel are reuniting for a TV series in which they cycle across France. The Channel 4 show is the second programme to feature two male comedy stars who emerged in the 1990s to ...

Sacha Baron Cohen is to star a new Netflix comedy movie as womanising chauvinist who finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. The Borat star will appear opposite Rosamund Pike in the film ...

Angela Barnes is to make her first appearance on Have I Got News For You later this month. The stand-up has hosted Newsjack and a series of The News Quiz on radio, but this will be her first time on ...

Eshaan Akbar has been accused of mocking the victims of the October 7 terror attack as he drew attention to the civilian victims of Israel’s military response.

Prop comic Spencer Jones was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2019 and 2017. His stage alter-ego is called Herbert Clunkerdunk (originally just The Herbert) and has made a series of BBC ...

Here's Athena Kugblenu explaining why she has a Greek name, and how your country of birth affects what sports you're supposed to support. She also talks about performing to a middle-class audience and ...

Radio 4 has commissioned a full series of The Naked Week to joins its topical Friday Night Comedy lineup. Andrew Hunter Murray hosts the show – which begins on November 29 – along with chief ...

She may have played the perpetual singleton in her BBC sitcom, but Miranda Hart secretly got married this year. The comedian reveals she got hitched to a building surveyor in her new memoirs.

A comic made a pregnant woman laugh so hard during his gig that her waters broke. The woman, called Olivia, went to last night’s gig in Melbourne, Australia, precisely because she was nine days ...

Shona McCarthy is stepping down as chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society after nearly a decade at the helm. She will leave her role in the spring, having taken the organisation ...

Yet Google ‘Terry Wogan’ today and you don't get the Radio 2 legend, but an image of comedian Benjamin Alborough. The stand-up loosely impersonates the talk-show pioneer in a cult live show – which ...