LONDON: Down-and-dirty US comedian and podcaster Jim Norton and fellow stand-up veteran Jim Florentine are in the UK for three dates of their two-hander, American Trash, starting at the Leicester ...

Joel Dommett and Michelle Wolf have joined the comedy line-upat Latitude Festival. Also announced as joining the line-up today are Bec Hill, Ivo Graham, Alison Spittle, Ayoade Bamgboye, Urooj Ashfaq, ...

SALTBURN: The dark comedy sexual pyschothriller – starring Barry Keoghan as a young man inveigling his way into an upper-class family – gets a terrestrial TV airing. BBC One, 10.30pm ...

American comedy duo BriTANicK are writing and directing their first film – thanks to an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Fast Show comedian Simon Day has blamed hackers after an antisemitic message was posted on his social media feeds. Many of the star’s followers were shocked yesterday when his accounts on X, Instagram ...

Peter Kay is to appear in conversation with fellow Bolton-born star Sara Cox at two events to mark the release of his next memoir, Peter Kay ’s Diary. The shows on Sunday September 14 at Salfod’s ...

Fern Brady is to introduce a showcase of Edinburgh Fringe comedians for spoken word platform Audible. Each of the six episodes – to be released on August 20 – will feature a headline act and ...

A mural of Still Game character Winston Ingram has appeared in Glasgow city centre. Street artist Tef sprayed the image on a wall just off Queen Street, showing the OAP – as played by Paul Riley – ...

Here’s the trailer for the second series of Such Brave Girls, teasing its return to iPlayer on July 3. The show was written by Kat Sadler who stars alongside her real-live sister Lizzie Davidson as ...

The robe worn by Tommy Cooper when he collapsed of a fatal heart attack live on TV is being auctioned off. The rather morbid piece of memorabilia was previously owned by fellow magician Paul Daniels.

Meanwhile, in a podcast Alex Horne has claimed ‘there aren't many arseholes’ in comedy. He said the fact that stand-ups generally have to earn their stripes by working their way up the circuit tends ...

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