Rhys James has announced a short eight-day tour to launch his first book, You’ll Like It When You Get There. The non-fiction title, subtitled A Life Lived Reluctantly, is about dread and not wanting ...

Ivo Graham returns with an early work-in-progress of his next theatrical storytelling show. He did something similar in 2023 – what he now calls a ‘rambling overshare’ – which spawned the acclaimed ...

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

John Cleese has made a behind-the-scenes documentary about his live show. John Cleese Packs It In follows the Fawlty Towers and Monty Python legend as he visits 16 European cities and performs 23 ...

Comedians Laura Smyth and Jen Brister are to go on the run in the next series of Celebrity Hunted. The pair are following in the footsteps of fellow comics Ed Gamble and James Acaster, who memorably ...

The Dutch format Let’s Play Ball has already proved a hit online and will launch on TV in the Netherlands next month. Now the producers behind Last One Laughing UK are working on a British version, ...

The short, entitled simply Joke, will feature ten of Cryer’s gags, recreated by 'some of British comedy's finest performers’, with filming due to take place this autumn. A video to promote the ...

It came after Hunter clashed with antisemitism campaigners Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The pair heckled an anti-Israel joke, with the response reportedly turning ...

Comedian Louise Young and YouTuber Hayley Morris plan a trip to Europe on the hoof in a new Channel 4 travel show. All Plans On Deck is a commercial tie-in with P&O Ferries, with the premise that the ...

The Ecole Philippe Gaulier clown school has produced a number of memorable Fringe performers in recent years, and Jessica Barton looks set to join their ranks with this, her quirky take on the prim, ...

Vir Das has dropped the trailer for his new Netflix special Fool Volume. The show was filmed in a stadium in Mumbai, London’s Union Chapel and the Comedy Cellar in New York. But as the Indian comic ...