BROWN SAUCE, London’s leading South Asian comedy club, and Tara Theatre are thrilled to announce the eight emerging comedians selected for the third edition of The Comedy Lab, taking place on Saturday...

Prime Video has released the first trailer and key art for Last One Laughing: Halloween. The trailer sees comedians Jack Dee, Daisy May Cooper, Phil Wang, Lou Sanders, Reece Shearsmith, Harriet Dyer a...

Fresh from being seen getting the boot on Celebrity Traitors, Amol Rajan is to return to our screens to host the fourth episode of the current series of Have I Got News For You.It will be the second t...

Comedian Tatty Macleod has announced her newest UK stand-up tour 'Things My Mother Did'. Currently on a 14-date European tour of the show, Macleod will bring the show to the UK and Ireland for 23 date...

Ellie White (The Other One) and Natasia Demetriou (What We Do In The Shadows), return with a new series of their critically acclaimed surreal sketch show Ellie and Natasia from Wednesday 21st October ...

James Nesbitt (Cold Feet, Run Away) will join Jamie-Lee O’Donnell (Derry Girls, Leonard And Hungry Paul) in Hopley Hall, a brand-new six-part comedy created and written by Daniel Peak (Not Going Out, ...

Aberdeen Performing Arts is celebrating a second successful Aberdeen Comedy Festival after the festival came to a close on Sunday 4 October.

Comedian Lee Peart is taking his debut stand-up tour to venues across the UK for 14 shows from Tuesday 27th April – Thursday 20th May 2027, including a big London headline show at Leicester Square The...

The global juggernaut Taskmaster is set to bring its International Emmy nominated and BAFTA Award winning chaos to both sides of the pond with two performances of the smash-hit live show Taskmaster Li...

Two decades after they first began making things together, Robin Ince and Josie Long are taking their long-running creative partnership on tour with 20 Years of Shambles — an evening of stand-up, poet...

The Live Comedy Association (LCA) has announced it has received Arts Council England funding to support a programme of events and activities over the next 10 months. The funding, worth £45,000, will h...

I'd been looking forward to The Reluctant Vampire for ages and sat down on Sunday night to watch it only to realise I'd missed it. I had assumed it would have an 8pmish slot but it actually went out a...

Rowan Atkinson is playing a run of shows in London brning back some classic characters. Read the full story here.Watch the trailer with some hints at who he might be doing below[video:https://www.yout...

Jimmy Carr's Am I The A**hole? is returning for a second series on Comedy Central. Host Carr will once again be joined by fellow comedian Jamali Maddix and influencer GK Barry on eight hour-long episo...

Rowan Atkinson is to return to the stage to perform sketch comedy in 2027.Atkinson, now 71, will star in a run of shows at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and will be doing a mix of new sketches and old rou...

Alex Horne and Greg Davies have suggested that Taskmaster might consider line-ups of fictional characters in the future.In an interview with American website Collider to promote the show being release...

As vampire heir to the throne, there are great expectations for Val (Lenny Rush) to follow in the footstaps of his father Victor (Tom Davis). However, he’s never really got to grips with the usual blo...

The Nominations are in for the 2026 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Ashley Storrie has received a Best Actress Television nomination for her role in Dinosaur as palaeontologist Nina.

Comedian Leigh Francis and Mhairi Black are two of the seven celebrities with differing faiths and beliefs taking part in the new series of Pilgrimage, coming to BBC Two and iPlayer next year.Where th...

Mike Jones, the Managing Director of The Stand, is leaving his post. The comedy club chain, which has branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle, issued the following statement:"After 7 years in pos...

The New Golden Age Of TV?

Don’t you just hate it when you move down to London to live with your college girlfriend and then the night before the move you have a one-night stand and she dumps you? Except that you’ve signed the ...

The winners of the Comedy Poster Awards 2026 have been revealed. Panel Prize:Li Jin Hao: Falling From a Moon Designed by Michael Julings and Tom Sandford, featuring a photo by Rebecca Need-Menear. Thi...

Lenny Rush stars in a new BBC comedy, The Reluctant Vampire, based on books by none other than comedy legend Eric Morecambe. As vampire heir to the throne, there are great expectations for Val to foll...

Britain's Got Talent winner, Lost Voice Guy, is to do his first UK tour for five years.

Don’t you just hate it when you move down to London to live with your college girlfriend and then the night before the move you have a one-night stand and she dumps you? Except that you’ve signed the ...

Michael Sheen takes the helm on House of Games from Monday 5 October 2026. It marks the multi-award-winning actor’s debut as quiz show host, following in Richard Osman's footsteps. Below he talks abou...

Following two hugely successful series and a record-breaking Christmas special last year, BBC Comedy has commissioned an Amandaland Christmas special for 2026.The award-winning series, starring Lucy P...

The cliché runs that most stand up comedians would kill to be rock stars and a lot of rock stars would fancy a go at comedy.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the multi award-winning international immersive dining phenomenon, celebrates 30 years worldwide and 15 years in the West End in 2027, alongside its 4,000th West E...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday.Why are you taking part in The Cel...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday.Why have you signed up to The Cele...

Tom Allen announces his brand-new UK tour, Totally, which hits the road in 2027 running through to 2028.Tom is totalling up what life is all about. He has been told to live in the moment but gets dist...

Inside No 9 star Reece Shearsmith is the latest guest on Dish from Waitrose, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE.Reece talks about Halloween; ghosts; the afterlife; catching bats; and his ...

Saturday Night Live UK has announced the host and musical guest line‑up for the next three episodes of its second series.On 10 October, BAFTA award-winning actor Danny Dyer (Rivals, Mr Big Stuff) will...

National trinket Julian Clary is making a highly-anticipated return to theatres across the UK from Wednesday 7th April – Saturday 5th June 2027, with a 40-date tour of his brand-new hour ‘Fully Dilate...

Break Clause is a six-part romantic comedy series written and created by Jess Bray and directed by Alice Snedden. It follows Ben and Lil as they navigate their break-up while stuck in the same flat.Mo...

A recent article on the Observer looked at the veterans returning to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The piece mentioned the likes of Alexei Sayle and Craig Ferguson and, erm, Sue "hardly ancient" Per...

Break Clause is a six-part romantic comedy series written and created by Jess Bray and directed by Alice Snedden. It follows Ben and Lil as they navigate their break-up while stuck in the same flat.Mo...

Strictly - It Takes Two returns this September to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer with a new look and a new host: comedian, presenter, and former Strictly contestant Ellie Taylor.Ellie's mission is to bring y...

There are reports on Facebook that comedian and musician Tony De Meur, also known as Ronnie Golden, has died.Posts say that he suffered a heart attack.Golden was a well-known figure on the comedy ciru...

New images have been released for new comedy It Gets Worse, produced by A24. Written, created by and starring Leo Reich, the new images feature guest stars Lena Dunham as Greta, Amelia Dimoldenberg as...

The Celebrity Traitors Countdown Begins..

The BBC has confirmed that the upcoming comedy The Reluctant Vampire, based on the books by comedy legend Eric Morecambe and written by Rob and Neil Gibbons (Alan Partridge), will come to screens on S...

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has revealed more details about his next project.Blackmere is described as “an absurd comedy disguised as an incredibly serious crime thriller. Tormented Detective...

Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade are to front a new game show on Netflix.In Hot or Cold contestants will take on challenges and run from room to room in a quest to be crowned Hot or Cold Champion.Conte...

Edinburgh Comedy Awards nominee and star of the upcoming Last One Laughing Halloween Special, Harriet Dyer is heading out on a UK tour with her hit show Easily Distra… fresh from an incredible run and...

Comedian Adam Hills is taking his live show Shoes Half Full on the road in 2027, with a limited number of weekend shows throughout February and March 2027. Tickets go on sale from Friday 25th Septembe...

Comedians Grace Campbell, Munya Chawawa and Michelle de Swarte are among the celebrities being painted in the new series of Portrait Artist of the Year, which returns to Sky Arts and streaming service...