Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has appeared in court over allegations he harassed a transgender woman The Irish comedy writer pleaded not guilty to that charge and another of criminal damage to ...

Chris McCausland recalls his first time on stage – at the school nativity play at the age four – in this new Comedy Central Live stand-up clip. He was relegated to the chorus of angels… if only ...

Daniel Radcliffe is to star alongside Tracy Morgan in a new American TV comedy entitled The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. The show reunites Morgan with 30 Rock showrunners Tina Fey and Robert ...

Eric Sykes gives you value for money with his memoirs. Not only does If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Will weigh in at a hefty 491 pages (well, at 82 years of age, there’s a long life to be fitted in), but ...

Rik Mayall’s ‘opening number’ at the very first Comic Relief gala in 1986 is still possibly the single funniest thing that’s ever happened.

It’s a heady stew to fit into an hour of stand-up, and the show ends up vacillating heavily between its cerebral thematic concerns of the way we carry the preconceptions of others with us, and the ...

I've had to confront the awkward reality that, in the midst of quite a lot of chaos, the days when I've often been happiest ...

Richard Gadd says he won’t be going back to stand-up as he’s too ‘dark’ to fit in. The Baby Reindeer creator said: ‘I get a lot of offers, but think my stand-up days are over. ‘I never really fitted ...

It’s a strange quirk of scheduling that U&Dave’s Silence Is Golden follows so closely on the heels of Prime Video’s Last One ...

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che spoke about the first American in the role on Saturday Night Live last night. Josh started by saying: 'As an American Catholic, I could not be more ...

EXETER: Innovative Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Elf Lyons begins a tour of her acclaimed show Horses, the first comedy show ever performed entirely by a horse, Treacle. It is described as a ...

Nick Mohammed, Ed Gamble and Nina Conti are among the comedians representing Britain at the revived Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal this July.