‘A joke is just something you say while you’re being funny,’ says Rik Mayall in Radio 4’s new documentary about his life and career. It’s a telling line, as Mayall’s manic, ineptly arrogant persona ...

Ronny Chieng is to play a rare London date this autumn. The Daily Show correspondent and sometime host is to bring his Love To Hate It tour to the London Palladium on October 25. It is the last stop ...

The show was scheduled to be performed by sock puppets at the Bedfringe comedy festival in July. However, the event takes place at the Quarry Theatre, which is owned by the school where Paula Vennells ...

Comedian Alex Mitchell wowed judges and the audience on his Britain’s Got Talent semi-final tonight. He spoke about his day ...

Rosie Jones is to record another Disability Comedy Extravaganza for the Dave Channel. The comic - who has just been named as one of the contestants in series 18 of Taskmaster – will be taping the show ...

That said, if Tom Lawrinson and Sam O’Leary aren’t the two best-known sketch comedians in the UK right now, we may as well shut down social media for good. I’m continually amazed at how every video ...

Rishi Sunak’s campaign speech at an Exeter firm this week was overshadowed by an employee rolling her eyes at the Prime Minister’s statement. And the situation was only made worse by the clumsy ...

Munya Chawawa is to make a Channel 4 documentary about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The film will be the second under the How To Survive A Dictator banner, following last year’s programme about ...

Shearsmith revealed that their television breakthrough, The League Of Gentlemen, which they created with Mark Gatiss and ...

Ellie Taylor has announced a small tour, her first in four years. The star of Ted Lasso, Live at the Apollo and The Mash Report will play 12 dates of her show Palavering! across April and May.

The original scripts from The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy TV series are to be published for the first time. They are the last remaining long-form writing by creator Douglas Adams yet to published ...

Canadian comedian Kevin Finn got the buzzer from Simon Cowell on tonight’s live Britain’s Got Talent semi-final. The stand-up ...