The acts taking part in Chloe Petts ’ new internet series Comedians Taking Penalties have been announced. The eight-part series launches on YouTube on Tuesday, with each comedian facing a series of ...

Hull-born Reece Shearsmith is a quarter of The League Of Gentlemen alongside Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson (who writes, but does not perform) They net at Bretton Hall drama school in ...

The annual Christmas ad battle might finally be coming to an end - and even John Lewis could be in trouble. Brands have been making increasingly sad songs to a slowed-down piano version of a formerly ...

It’s not a great time to be a public service broadcaster in the UK, but credit where it’s due for their backing of the comedy circuit. One day after the BBC unveiled Eli Hart as their New Comedy Award ...

I got to hang out more with Joel [Davison] who plays my grandson Theo and we bonded; he’s such a nice fella and interesting funny bloke. When I look at the montage sequences and the credits which are ...

Date: Fri 27 Mar 2026 Venue: Nottingham Motorpoint Arena Price: Please contact venue or promoters Show starts: 18:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier) ...

Tom Basden has won a British Independent Film Award for his music in The Ballad of Wallis Island. He and composer Adem Ilhan last night won the accolade for best original music for the movie, which ...

Tom Towelling has won this year’s Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award. The offbeat comic took the title at a showcase in Bradford last night, following in the footsteps of previous winners Eric Rushton ...

Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

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 ...

Robert White, comedian tour datesAfter graduating in music, Robert White spent eight years doing various jobs before trying comedy in 2004. He was finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year ...

The first names have been announced for next year’s 40th anniversary Melbourne International Comedy Festival – with a number of Brits among them.