Tributes have been to Irish comic Jon Kenny, who died yesterday at the age of 66. He had suffered a heart attack last Sunday and had not regained since. Kenny started his career in the 1980s in the ...

Harry Enfield has joined the line-up of next year’s Slapstick comedy festival, making a rare live stage appearance to talk about his career. He will be interviewed by Robin Ince at the Bristol Old Vic ...

Judges awarded Chris McCausland 37 points on tonight's Strictly Come Dancing, his highest score yet on the show. The comedian's dance partner Dianne Buswell was weeping when the score was announced, ...

By packaging jaw-dropping circus skills with burlesque raunch, David Bates was pivotal in reinventing cabaret when he launched La Clique at the Edinburgh Fringe 20 years ago.

Cross – known on TV for Arrested Development, Mr Show and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret – will be playing five days of his The End Of The Beginning Of The End Tour in April.

Here’s the trailer for Jack Whitehall’s Christmas special Jack In Time For Christmas. In the partially scripted, partially improvised travelogue the comedian has four days to get home to the UK from ...

The line-up has been announced for the next Taskmaster’s New Year Treat. Competing for Greg Davies ’s golden eyebrows in the one-off show are former England and Liverpool footballer David James, ...

Filming has finally begun on Jordan Gray ’s sitcom Transaction – more than two years after it was first announced. In the six ...

Given all the opportunities the BBC can afford, it’s no surprise that their New Comedy Award attracts the cream of emerging comedians – and the final of this year’s contest, hosted in Birmingham by ...

Belfast is to host the next BBC Comedy Festival, it has been announced today. The event will be a chance for producers, both established and new, to celebrate and explore comedy in the UK, and aims to ...

Kiwi comic Rhys Darby is returning to the stage with a new stand-up show, The Legend Returns. A total of 19 UK and one Irish date have been announced for the tour, which is is first in nearly a decade ...

In a world full of AI and robot tech can a simple dad with slightly tight jeans stay relevant? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes! Rhys hopes to prove that right now a touch of very human silliness ...