Here’s the trailer for Jack Whitehall’s Christmas special Jack In Time For Christmas. In the partially scripted, partially improvised travelogue the comedian has four days to get home to the UK from ...

By packaging jaw-dropping circus skills with burlesque raunch, David Bates was pivotal in reinventing cabaret when he launched La Clique at the Edinburgh Fringe 20 years ago.

Cross – known on TV for Arrested Development, Mr Show and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret – will be playing five days of his The End Of The Beginning Of The End Tour in April.

Filming has finally begun on Jordan Gray ’s sitcom Transaction – more than two years after it was first announced. In the six ...

The line-up has been announced for the next Taskmaster’s New Year Treat. Competing for Greg Davies ’s golden eyebrows in the one-off show are former England and Liverpool footballer David James, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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? Good, yeah, nice,’ he ...

'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 ...

Stevie Martin is booking an Airbnb for a getaway… and as usual she’s having a few problems. Regular collaborator Lola-Rose Maxwell is the voice of the booking platform in this latest video. Martin’s ...