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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the gig at The Gaffe comedy club in Bristol, Paul Hilleard became our first official Hotshot, receiving some financial help with his show – which will be called Grog and will be on at Monkey ...

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like the US assault on Iran and Hillary Clinton's Jeffery Epstein testimony. And in part two they tackled the Warner ...

BEXHILL-ON-SEA: John Bishop and Alan Carr top a benefit at De La Warr Pavilion in aid of Taylor Made Dreams, which enables children with life-limiting illnesses to achieve their dreams when time is ...

Saturday Night Live opened with a quickly-written sketch about Donald Trump declaring war on Iran.

Last week Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson make an involuntary racial slur because of his neurological disorder, with the BBC under fire for not editing out from the later broadcast. In the SNL ...

WING IT: The improvised comedy panel show hosted by Alasdair Beckett-King returns. This week, Steen Raskopoulos, Cariad Lloyd, Luke Manning and Emily Lloyd-Saini conjure up emotional butchers, a three ...