Diane Morgan has admitted she thought she’d never be asked to take part in the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? – after mocking it on screen. ‘I thought I’d blown it after I did a spoof of it in my ...

The printed edition of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has been unveiled today. It features 3,352 shows across 265 venues - though more will be added to the online box office as the festival ...

What I've done successfully is manage expectations of what I do over the last ten years. I'm no longer worried about whether it can be considered comedy, whether it's big or intimate. We just put on a ...

South London’s Banana Cabaret has announced the line-up for their 2025 Balham Comedy Festival. The event, now in its 13th year, features the likes of Rhys James, Shaparak Khorsandi (pictured) and Ria ...

Rare footage of late American stand-up Mitch Hedberg has resurfaced – thanks to fellow comic Doug Stanhope. Stanhope has posted to YouTube a half-hour pilot that Hedberg recorded for MTV in 2001, ...

Harry Hill is backing a new nationwide drawing project inspired by David Hockney. The comic has chosen the next theme for the Draw! project created as part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis will this week launch a comedy podcast examining the future of humanity. In each episode of Future Tense the pair will be joined by stand-up and science writer Helen ...

Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Rosco McClelland, Liam Withnail and Stuart McPherson are to release stand-up specials for free on online this June and July.

Sean Patrick has won the Not So New Comedian Of The Year competition. The comic – who has been performing comedy since 2012 – ...

Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are to write a final episode of their time-slip sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart – as a novel. The show originally aired across 57 episodes on BBC One between 1993 and 1999 ...

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