The BBC has axed two long-running Northern Irish comedy shows: Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game. Sitcom Give My Head Peace first aired on TV in 1995 while panel show The Blame Game broadcast its ...

James Nesbitt has joined the cast of Hopley Hall, a new six-part BBC comedy set in a crumbling stately home on the County Antrim coast. He will star opposite Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, in ...

Australian comedian Judith Lucy has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She broke the news in a post on Instagram today titled: ‘So I have cancer’, in which she told her followers that ...

Taskmaster has announced two live shows – at Manchester's AO Arena and the Hollywood Bowl. The show – which originated as a live event at the Edinburgh Fringe – made its large-scale theatre debut ...

The Live Comedy Association has been awarded £45,000 of Arts Council England funding to support a series of events – boosting its campaign to get the sector recognised as an essential part of the ...

Jimmy Carr has written a new book about the craft that goes into comedy. The title – On Jokes: The Hidden Mechanics Of Funny – has been co-created with comedy director Amanda Baker and writer Abi ...

Rare Spike Milligan performances and home video clips are to get a TV airing. Vintage TV and film channel Talking Pictures TV has been given access to the former Goon’s personal archive, and will ...

Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance. The book, Laughter is the Best Medicine, is to be published in November and is described as ‘a nostalgic ...

This year’s Aberdeen Comedy Festival has been hailed a success after attracting more than 17,000 audience members in its second year, organisers say. It ran over three weekends, from September 18 to ...

Rowan Atkinson is to perform characters such as Blackadder and Mr Bean in a live West End show next year. The comedian will also perform new routines as well as sketches from Not The Nine O’Clock News ...

South Asian comedy club Brown Sauce has announced the eight emerging comedians chosen for its 2026 Comedy Lab. They will now take part in a free one-day workshop followed by a gig at South London’s ...

An additional recording date has been announced for the next series of Radio 4's flagship stand-up series Live From The UK. Angela Barnes will host an episode at Margate’s Where Else? venue on October ...