Simon Bird is to direct a comedy film about a couple who offer refuge to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Second World War. Pretend I'm Not Here will star Matthew Broderick, Sally Hawkins and ...

Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Alex Horne conducts a post-task interview with Mat Baynton on set of the 19th series of Taskmaster. The Ghosts star says he ...

Samira Banks has signed up to the Blue Book comedy agency. The comic won So You Think You’re Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, after just six months of performing stand up. She has performed as ...

Daisy May Cooper is in the cast of the new Astérix & Obélix animated series, it has been announced. The Am I Being Unreasonable star plays Impedimenta, the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, in ...

The thing you can’t actually see as a viewer, and you can't feel to the full extent, is when you go out to that room and someone says, ‘Good evening everyone,’ or a comedian comes out and makes a joke ...

Chris McCasuland is to make a BBC Two documentary on how technology has been life-changing for him, and what the future holds. The hour-long programme is titled Chris Mccausland: Seeing Into the ...

Here are the first images from inside the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow, which opens on Friday with a run of Natalie Palamides ’ show Weer. The 960-seat venue has been restored from the former 1930s ...

MPs are hearing from comics Matt Forde and Kate Cheka this morning as a Parliamentary committee looks at the state of the UK comedy sector.

The Second Best Time Of Your Life starts with a self-deprecating parody of the swagger inherent in most American stand-up, the glitzy, arriving-at-the-theatre opening making way for a shot of him ...

TASKMASTER: Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne return for a 19th series, with contestants Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin. The first episode will test ...