Ed Gamble is to embark on a stand-up tour next year, with more than 60 dates planned across the UK. Fresh Hell opens at the Regent, Ipswich, on January 30, and includes four nights at the London ...

Chris Maughan Lifetime Contribution Award: Charlotte Laidet, who will be stepping down as festivals and programme director at Big Difference Company, which runs the festival, after nine years. Michael ...

Dara Ó Briain is piloting a new comedy show seeking the nation’s dullest people. The comic will be joined by guests including John Robins at a run-through of the programme – simply called Britain's ...

Amy Gledhill’s comedy pilot Toads is being developed into a full series, it has been reported. Channel 4 released a 13-minute version of the show as a Comedy Blap in 2024, and now industry website ...

Applications have opened for £5,000 grants to help artists and companies hoping to take a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time.

Everyone’s annoying cousin is going back on tour with some more of his grot. Come and see the self-appointed Crown Prince of Visualised Companion Podcasts harrumph about the stage.

The BBC dominates the comedy categories of the 2026 Royal Television Society award shortlist, published today. All four shows in the scripted comedy category were aired by the broadcaster: Here We Go, ...

Entries have opened for this year’s Dabbers Bingo comedy caller contest. The company is searching for 24 comedians and cabaret performers to compete for the title and a £1,500 cash prize. It is the ...

An astronomy researcher has picked up the title for ‘best clean joke of last month's Leicester Comedy Festival’. Andy Bucks, 32, and based at Warwick University in Coventry came top of the list with ...

A new outdoor comedy festival is coming to Norwich this summer, with some of the biggest names in British stand-up. The Norwich Comedy Garden will run from July 1 to July 5 at Chapelfield Gardens, ...

Laughterhouse became the oldest comedy club in Liverpool when Comedy Central closed its venue at Royal Albert Dock in 2019, after 13 years, citing the difficulties of running ‘a high-quality comedy ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about radio DJs.