Ted Lasso is to return for a fourth series, Apple TV+ has confirmed. The announcement comes almost two years after Season 3 ended with what many fans felt could have been a definitive closure, with ...

Kathy Rivett has won the penultimate semi-final of this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award. The 19-year-old is studying illustration with animation at Manchester Met University and last year took ...

Two Doors Down is reportedly returning to screens for a Christmas special. The news comes as a surprise as writer Gregor Sharp said. he felt unable to continue working on the series following the ...

Alternative comedy magazine Chaff has published its second edition. Co-created by comedian Will BF and producer Amber Ash, the open-submission magazine was launched in January. BF said: 'It was ...

The venue winners in the 2025 Chortle Awards, supported by Ticketmaster, are: Best comedy venue: The Bill Murray Best pro comedy night: Always Be Comedy Best live comedy format: Quantum Leopard, ...

Conservative comics tend to be ‘old school,’ less inventive and more limited in their choice of topics. Comedy needs the element of surprise to be effective, being surprising entails saying something ...

Rich Wilson got into comedy after working as a barman at the Up The Creek club in Greenwich, South London. Inspired by the comedians he saw, he gave it a go himself in 2004, and has since become a ...

Comedian Kevin Bishop has revealed his struggles with alcoholism, and told how he has split from his wife of 19 years.

Seven comedians have been shortlisted for this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award. The announcement comes as the city’s comedy festival gets under way, with the winner announced at a ...

Rachel Parris has written a sequel to Pride And Prejudice, imagining what happens to Charlotte Lucas after she marries the ‘odious’ Mr Collins. The comedian is a fan of Jane Austen and a founding ...

04/03/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.

Rob Brydon’s Honky Tonk Road Trip is part of series of programmes about country music announced by the BBC today – also including a two-hour film called Rebel Country about a new breed of country ...