Bella Hull: A stand‑up comedian and writer who has appeared on Have I Got News For You, Stand Up For Live Comedy, The Stand Up Sketch Show, and Comedy Central. She has taken three shows to Edinburgh, ...

Reppd offers services including career consultation, contract assessment and connecting performers with relevant industry contacts – and says it is an ‘affordable, accessible model’. Free initial ...

Adam Ernst Pickard is the first finalists to be chosen in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award. Aged 22, he is originally from Godalming in Surrey and studying an MA in scriptwriting at the ...

Bath Comedy Festival is back this spring with more than 100 shows and 300 performances spread across four weeks and a range of city-centre venues. Bigger names appear at Bath Forum, where the bill ...

Chris Cantrill has won the BBC Audio Drama Award for best comedy performance for Icklewick FM. He created the Radio 4 show with fellow comic Amy Gledhill, who was not on the shortlist, which also ...

Five more comics have signed up to be ambassadors for Live Comedy Day on April 1. Shaparak Khorsandi, Mark Watson, Ignacio Lopez, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Kiri Pritchard-McLean have all lent their support ...

Bill Bailey has announced a seven-week West End run of his stand-up show Vaudevillean. The comic – and Strictly Come Dancing winner – will be playing the Theatre Royal Haymarket rom December 16 to ...

The Stand Comedy Club is sponsoring five Scottish-based comedians to meet the cost of performing at the Edinburgh Fringe. They are Ifrah Qureshi, Matthew Gallagher, Chris Rutter, Amanda Dwyer and Jack ...

Saturday Night Live veteran Tina Fey has been tipped to host the first UK edition of the show. The comic has a long relationship wit the US original, having joined as a writer in 1997 and rising to ...

A 2010 Chortle Student Award semi-finalist, Fin Taylor has warmed up for BBC2's 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks and supported Glenn Wool on tour.

Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

Camp comedian Craig Hill had hs first public success at the age of ten when he won a talent contest in his native East Kilbride, impersonating Cleo Laine. He never looked back, going on to enter dance ...