Aurie Styla and Nish Kumar have joined the line-up of the Moontown Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas. The pair are the only British acts on the line-up of the festival, which takes over a dozen venues ...

Beyond taking potshots at easy targets like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, vanishingly few comedians grapple with big political themes in an artistic zeitgeist dominated by personal stories.

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Et cette semaine, toutes les questions portent sur la ...

Shot in Auckland across the turn of the year, the retro New Zealand Spy co-stars Tim Key, Sam Campbell and Claudia O'Doherty.

Here, Auton explicitly plays a character for the first time, portraying the lead role in a narrative about a man called Can, supposedly the world’s greatest motivational speaker, now retired.

Sue Perkins conducts a straw poll at the top of her show to gauge audience expectations. Are we here to see Bake Off Sue, with more puns and double entendres about pastry than you thought possible?

Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar will lead two teams of comedians in an escape room series coming to U&Dave later this year. Mel Giedroyc will host The Way Out – which sees Gamble paired with Chloe Petts and ...

Richard Herring is to play disillusioned and alcoholic lecturer Frank in an amateur stage production of Educating Rita. The stand-up and podcaster will appear opposite fellow comedian Anna Morris in ...

Comedians Fern Brady and Alison Spittle are reuniting for a new podcast called Ignore That Feeling. The pair previously hosted the Radio 5 Live podcast Wheel Of Misfortune together, until Brady left ...

Comics Richard Herring, Joe Wilkinson, Roisin Conaty , Jon Richardson, Babatunde Aléshé, Rose Matafeo, Judi Love and Tom Davis are taking part in the next Celebrity Bake Off. They will be joined by ...

The Christmas special of Amandaland has been named the most-watched comedy of 2025. The show – starring Lucy Punch, Joanna Lumley, Philippa Dunne and guest star Jennifer Saunders – was seen by ...

The Keep It Fringe Fund is returning to help performers bring shows at the Edinburgh festival – but much reduced compared to previous years. The society behind August’s mammoth event will hand out 12 ...