Chris Ramsey and Iain Stirling are to record their latest tour shows as stand-up specials. They will both be taped at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, in North-East London, on April 22 and 24. It follows the ...

Before Tom bails out on the modern world entirely to commit to nostalgia full-time, the burner phone using, Discman carrying, 1988-1995 obsessed freak is giving the present tense one last try. Not for ...

Eva Peroni has become the second finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award. Already a regular on the Scottish circuit, the 21-year-old is in the second year of a global law degree at ...

Junior Simpson has retired from stand-up having been diagnosed with vascular dementia. The condition – a caused by reduced blood flow to the brain – comes after the 62-year-old suffered a number of ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all 007-themed. Good luck!

Murray's grandfather Sir Ralph Murray was a diplomat, working at the Political Warfare Establishment propaganda unit. And his great-great-great-grandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray. Al wread ...

Dee's first public act was an open-mike gig in 1988. He toiled away on the circuit with little success, while holding down menial kitchen jobs. Disillusioned with his lack of progress, he was ready to ...