North Macedonian comedian Vlad Ilich has been crowned British Comedian Of the Year – taking home a £10,001 prize. The award is the biggest in comedy, just £1 more than the winner of the Edinburgh ...

London's Top Secret has set up a new comedy club – in New York. The 232-seater venue opened in the city's East Village last night, with US-based British comedy rapper Chris Turner on the bill. Club ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. This week's questions are all about controversies.

The Edinburgh Fringe issued 2.6million tickets this year – the same as 2024. But the true audience will be higher as it takes no account of the free un-ticketed shows.

Rosanna Pike has won this year’s 2025 Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction for her debut novel A Little Trickerie. And Marina Lewycka won a ‘winner of winners’ prize to mark 25 years of the ...

Seth Rogen’s Apple TV series The Studio won the best comedy drama or sitcom category, with judges describing it as ‘a brilliant contemporary satire of art versus business versus ambition versus ...

Ghosts and Taskmaster star Kiell Smith-Bynoe is taking his improvised comedy format Kool Story Bro on a UK tour next year. Using stories from the audience, Kiell and castmates including Emma Sidi , ...

Fred Bell has won the West End New (Old) Act Of The Year 2025 – and the grand total of £125. The runners-up were Dipak Patel and Sudeepta Sanyal, with Elaine Miles scooping the Audience prize ...

The line-up for the 20th series of Live At The Apollo has been announced. The stand-up showcase returns to BBC Two with a festive special of hosted by Josh Widdicombe and featuring Andrew Mensah and ...

Tom Basden and Tim Key have won two British Independent Film Awards for their debut feature The Ballad of Wallis Island.

BBC Asian Network’s annual comedy show is to return, newly renamed as One More Laugh. The 2016 edition of will be hosted by Dinesh Nathan at the BBC Radio Theatre, London on Friday January 30..

Flo & Joan will try and take up as much of the stage and as little of your patience as possible as they use another 'real band's' setlist to write their own show - ruminating on themes such as ‘what ...