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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Jack Rooke, the creator of Channel 4 comedy-drama Big Boys, is reviving the stage show that made his name for a UK tour. The dates mark ten years since Good Grief was first performed at the Edinburgh ...

A former milkman, Harry Enfield started his comedy career as an impressionist on Spitting Image, but shot to fame Channel 4's Saturday Live, first in the guise of Greek kebab-shop owner Stavros, then ...