The comedy club founded by Bernard Manning is to be demolished. The self-styled ‘world famous’ Embassy Club in the Harpurhey district of north Manchester will host its final comedy night on Friday. It ...

Richard Osman is quitting the House Of Games quiz show that bears his name. The presenter has hosed more than 800 episodes since the show began in 2017. Speaking on his podcast, The Rest is ...

Paul Smith’s last tour is to be released in more than 350 UK cinemas next month. Pablo Live was filmed at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre with distributors saying the 85-minute release ‘captures the chaos, ...

Comedy Central has renewed three of its formats featuring Jimmy Carr, Iain Stirling and Babatundé Aléshé. Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole?, Iain Stirling 's Roast Te Internet and Stupid Central will ...

Production has started on the third season of hit Australian romcom Colin from Accounts. The show will resolve the cliffhanger from series 2, in which Patrick Brammall’s character Gordon proposed to ...

Bella Hull: A stand‑up comedian and writer who has appeared on Have I Got News For You, Stand Up For Live Comedy, The Stand Up Sketch Show, and Comedy Central. She has taken three shows to Edinburgh, ...

Reppd offers services including career consultation, contract assessment and connecting performers with relevant industry contacts – and says it is an ‘affordable, accessible model’. Free initial ...

Adam Ernst Pickard is the first finalists to be chosen in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award. Aged 22, he is originally from Godalming in Surrey and studying an MA in scriptwriting at the ...

Five more comics have signed up to be ambassadors for Live Comedy Day on April 1. Shaparak Khorsandi, Mark Watson, Ignacio Lopez, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Kiri Pritchard-McLean have all lent their support ...

Chris Cantrill has won the BBC Audio Drama Award for best comedy performance for Icklewick FM. He created the Radio 4 show with fellow comic Amy Gledhill, who was not on the shortlist, which also ...

Bath Comedy Festival is back this spring with more than 100 shows and 300 performances spread across four weeks and a range of city-centre venues. Bigger names appear at Bath Forum, where the bill ...

Bill Bailey has announced a seven-week West End run of his stand-up show Vaudevillean. The comic – and Strictly Come Dancing winner – will be playing the Theatre Royal Haymarket rom December 16 to ...