Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: ...

Sean Patrick has won the Not So New Comedian Of The Year competition. The comic – who has been performing comedy since 2012 – took home a £250 prize. Fred Ferenczi was runner-up, winning £100, with ...

When the comic was 12, his father fell into financial trouble, and later had an affair, disappearing for several days. After trying some ‘Del Boy’-style schemes, he ended up being jailed for just ...

Ricky Gervais has been given his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And at the ceremony he joked that it was a ‘genuine thrill’ to be honoured alongside other icons, citing ‘Michael Jackson, Bill ...

A warrant has been issued for Reginald D Hunter to attend court over a private prosecution brought by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in almost 250 episodes of M*A*S*H has died at the age of 87. Her death in New York – believed to be from natural causes – was announced by ...

Dame Penelope Keith is to host a two-hour retrospective about The Good Life to mark 50 years of the classic sitcom. The show ...

• Jordan Gray : Is That a C*ck in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Here to Kill Me? is at Soho Theatre until Saturday then plays ...

Here’s a new trailer for indie British comedy Chicken Town, starring John Shuttleworth creator Graham Fellows as an unlikely drug dealer, as its cinematic release as been announced. The film – which ...

Edinburgh Fringe performers Linus Karp and Joseph Martin are to get legally married on stage during this year’s festival. The pair behind shows such as Gwyneth Goes Skiing will tie the knot on the ...

Sarah McGettigan, head of television production at Pinewood Studios, brought home the scale of the crisis by saying that ...

Alex Horne was petrified of killing Jason Mantzoukas with an egg on the current series of Taskmaster. The actor is severely ...