Eva Peroni has become the second finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award. Already a regular on the Scottish circuit, the 21-year-old is in the second year of a global law degree at ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all 007-themed. Good luck!

The comedy club founded by Bernard Manning is to be demolished. The self-styled ‘world famous’ Embassy Club in the Harpurhey district of north Manchester will host its final comedy night on Friday. It ...

Richard Osman is quitting the House Of Games quiz show that bears his name. The presenter has hosed more than 800 episodes since the show began in 2017. Speaking on his podcast, The Rest is ...

Comedy Central has renewed three of its formats featuring Jimmy Carr, Iain Stirling and Babatundé Aléshé. Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole?, Iain Stirling 's Roast Te Internet and Stupid Central will ...

Paul Smith’s last tour is to be released in more than 350 UK cinemas next month. Pablo Live was filmed at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre with distributors saying the 85-minute release ‘captures the chaos, ...

Production has started on the third season of hit Australian romcom Colin from Accounts. The show will resolve the cliffhanger from series 2, in which Patrick Brammall’s character Gordon proposed to ...

Murray's grandfather Sir Ralph Murray was a diplomat, working at the Political Warfare Establishment propaganda unit. And his great-great-great-grandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray. Al wread ...

Dee's first public act was an open-mike gig in 1988. He toiled away on the circuit with little success, while holding down menial kitchen jobs. Disillusioned with his lack of progress, he was ready to ...