Russell Howard has had to abandon some of his work publicising his new stand-up special because of the Californian wildfires. The comic was due to appear on the CBS talk show After Midnight with ...

ITV has commissioned a third and final series of its comedy The Dry, starring Roisin Gallagher as recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan. The news comes as the second series – which has been streamed ...

The Glasgow International Comedy Festival has unveiled its biggest line-up yet, with more than 550 shows.

The BBC's director of comedy, Jon Petrie, pictured, says: ‘The BBC Comedy Collective offers an incredible opportunity for some of the most exciting comedic talents - both on-screen and behind the ...

Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy have joined the cast of BBC comedy Boarders. The show, about five talented black inner-city teens in the posh boarding school of St. Gilbert’s, returns to BBC Three ...

The Daily Star today reports that a big-screen version of the hit BBC comedy is in the works, with filming set to start ‘within months’. However the paper cites no production company or director ...

Johnny Ball is to write a book about his career in comedy before he became known as a children’s science presenter. Ball – the father of broadcaster Zoe – began his entertainment career by working as ...

Australian comic Alice Fraser has announced a short UK tour to promote her new book. A Passion For Passion is described as ‘a love letter to genre romance fiction’ that ‘celebrates the joyful ...

Dawn French looks almost unrecognisable in a new comedyclip posted on Instagram. The 67-year-old comic long ago ditched her brunette bob and shed a huge amount of weight after joking that she would ...

Alice Fraser has fallen in love… with romance novels. She’s written a delirious love letter to the genre and now she has to live with the consequences. If you love romance novels, or if you have no ...

The shows – and the comics taking part in each one – are: Aaron Wood, Adam Anwar, Alex Stringer, Ava Liversidge, Dom Hatton Woods, Ellie Pea, Jacob Nussey, Lindsey Davies, Nathan Birkinshaw, Paul ...

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night is streaming January 16 on Peacock.