Milton Jones and Phil Wang will be performing at this year’s Royal Variety Performance, to be hosted by Jason Manford. It will be Manford’s third time as host – and the sixth time he has appeared on ...

Harry Hill has made a ‘gloriously absurd dark comedy’ film about an 86-year-old woman who gives birth to a ‘weird’ child. Richard Ayoade is the on-screen narrator for The Jillon, which stars Flip ...

A celebrity is currently seeking a High Court injunction to prevent the release of serious allegations about his conduct over several years, including the claim that he committed a sexual offence. As ...

From the rafters of Lancaster’s Grand Theatre, Roy Chubby Brown is a difficult man to measure.

Bill Bailey has lent his voice to a comedy nature documentary based around World Of Warcraft. The comic offers a guide to the planet Azeroth to promote the release of a new game set there, World Of ...

​Nick Mohammed has told how he was disqualified from a Magic Circle audition for using an audience stooge. Before going into comedy, the Ted Lasso and Celebrity Traitors star worked professionally as ...

Guz Khan has revealed the dark story behind how he bought his first house. When the Man Like Mobeen star first married Amena, they lived in a converted attic in his mum’s family home in Coventry.

With John Robins currently on hiatus from stand-up, this heartbreaking memoir of his relationship with drinking goes a long way towards bringing readers up to date with where his head is right now, ...

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Sky has announced a new stand-up showcase that looks very much like a successor to Live At The Apollo. John Bishop’s Comedy Night At The Coliseum will involve the host introducing a line-up of ...

Eric Idle has cancelled a book tour of Australia and New Zealand because of ill health. The 83-year-old Monty Python star recently published his book Idle In Provence: A Brief History Of Thyme, and ...

Sara Pascoe has revealed how she was fired from a panel show after ‘freezing’ on set. The comedian was a regular on Wall Of Fame, a show on Sky One hosted by David Walliams that aired in 2011, ...