Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel Comedy is to offer comedy training from top American improv and sketch institution Upright Citizens Brigade. The original company was set up in Chicago in 1990 by Amy Poehler ...

Janine Harouni has made it to the final of Netflix talent show Star Search. The UK-based American stand-up earned her place on last night’s semi-final, which was streamed live on the platform. Under ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is to star in a comedy heist caper described as ‘Ireland’s first cynical Christmas comedy film’. You’ll Never Believe Who’s Dead is being unveiled to buyers at the European Film Market, ...

Channel 4 is launching a Spotify comedy channel this week. A Comedy Thing by Channel 4, which first launched on YouTube last summer, features comedians including Vittorio Angelone, Mike Rice, Finlay ...

Alan Carr has been announced as taking part in yet another project – voicing a character in a Pixar film. The comic will play Alan the Squirrel in Hoppers, alongside his friend Amanda Holden, who ...

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has launched a new podcast that explores the pivotal moments in comedians' careers.

Amelia Dimoldenberg is set to star in a romcom movie The Chicken Shop Date creator is working with Orion Pictures on the as-yet-untitled project, which she will also produce.

Here's the full trailer for the reboot of Scrubs, ahead of its US premiere on February 25 on ABC and Hulu. Zach Braff reprises his role as Dr JD Dorian withe original co-stars Donald Faison, Sarah ...

Whatever happened to the days when a talent hunt would throw up hopeless would-be comedians, hilarious only in their misguided belief they had a future? The Brighton Komedia New Act Competition is ...

The award-winning Elvis of comedy continues his residency at the gates of Hell, with a new show inspired by an absolutely shocking incident on a train. Have you ever felt seen and unseen at the same ...

Tam Cowan is best known as the long-standing host of BBC Radio Scotland's Off The Ball, and as the host of his monthly Aff The Baw comedy show at Blackfriars in Glasgow. With the aid of satnav – plus ...