A stern warning: if you are sensitive, easily offended or possess a fragile sense of self-worth, choose your seats carefully. In classic Bianca fashion, the front row is a firing squad, and no one is ...

Like many an immigrant comedian, Stanela Khalil understandably uses her status as a cultural inbetweener to drive her comedy – too Irish for Beirut, too Lebanese for Dublin.

The Fast Show team have announced a new run of dates for 2027. Simon Day, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Paul Whitehouse, Mark Williams and Arabella Weir take to the road again from February after two ...

Like his facial hair, Nick Helm ’s CV is growing – as he becomes the hirsute face of Movember. The comedian fronts the 2026 ad campaign for the men’s health charity, set to the soundtrack of Celine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...