Eli Hart has been crowned winner of this year’s BBC New Comedy Awards. The comic took the prize at the final, which was held at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre last month, and which aired on BBC One ...

The simply named Comedians Do Carols has been created by stand-up Amy Annette, who said: ‘For me, the best part of the festive period has always been the carols. Singing as loud as possible, often ...

Thirty years on, and The Fast Show isn’t short of fans. This reunion tour which started last year is running into next, and catchphrases – the word ‘arse’, specifically – are yelled before the cast ...

Netflix has today announced that Ricky Gervais ’s Mortality will have its global release on Tuesday December 30. It is the comic’s fourth special for the streamer following Humanity, Supernature, and ...

The first pictures have been released for the new Dawn French and Mark Heap comedy Can You Keep a Secret? The six-part series apparently inspired by the case of ‘canoe man’ John Darwin – the ...

Garry Starr is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for ‘longest cumulative time of full-frontal nudity in a West End stage show’. The comic alter-ego of Australian clown Damien Warren-Smith performs ...

Jason Byrne is making a series he likens to an Irish version of The Simpsons. The loosely autobiographical The Irelands of Ireland is an adult animation set in a Dublin pub in the 1980s and 1990s. The ...

Men Behaving Badly is making a comeback – as a stage play. The sitcom’s original creator, Simon Nye, has written a show that will premiere at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester early next year.

Comedy writer Gavin Petrie has died at the age of 83. He started out as a music and entertainment journalist – becoming features editor of the TV Times – before turning to comedy writing with his wife ...

The West End New Act Of The Year began in 2022, with this spin-off launched the following year to showcase comedians over the age of 35. The winners will receive ‘a small amount of money’.

Finlay Christie is to make his debut on Have I Got News For You. The comic will be appearing on the December 5 edition of the topical panel show opposite Green Party leader Zack Polanski, who is also ...

Adrian Edmondson, Ted Lasso star James Lance and Comedy Story Player Josie Lawrence are to make guest appearances in the festive episodes of hit BBC detective show Death In Paradise and its spin-off ...