The British Comedy Guide has announced a new stand-up contest for open mic comedians. Stand-Up & Deliver will comprise three heats and a final, all in London across Sundays in November.

The special – entitled The Night Of The Werebear – has been released without any advance publicity, and billed as an extra seventh episode of Series 1. As well as taking the lead role, Fielding was ...

Five years ago, Alan Davies revealed in his powerful and sometimes distressing memoir Just Ignore Him that he had been sexually abused by his father as a child. White Male Stand-Up is about how the ...

Scottish comedy star Gregor Fisher is to go on his first tour with an ‘evening with’ show. The event will cover his career including Rab C. Nesbitt, Love Actually, Only Child and The Cockfields.

Taskmaster contestant Phil Ellis and fellow comic Anna Thomas are launching a new podcast called Early Worms. Ellis said: ‘Can’t wait to bring people into our shared breakdown. I think people are ...

‘f you find a queer writer, a person of colour, a disabled writer, someone from the trans community… inevitably the commissioner will have steered them to write about their identity,’ he said. ‘It’s ...

Sharifa Butterfly got ChatGPT to write her wedding speech… and it didn’t entirely go to plan. The comic reveals the results of the AI’s efforts, as well as discussing the st ...

Victor Meldrew’s house has sold for its asking price of £337,500. The three-bedroom property in Christchurch, Dorset, was used for exterior scenes in One Foot In The Grave. It went on the market in ...

Ed Williams, who played the deadpan forensic scientist Ted Olson in Police Squad! and the Naked Gun movies, has died aged 98. The actor also played the priest in the 1991 version of Father Of The ...

Comedian Brenda Gilhooly has written her first novel. Woman Behaving Badly is a comic story of 49-year-old Millie, whose life is in freefall as she’s she’s stuck in a job she hates and back living ...

Politicians were told of a ‘perfect storm’ of issues battering the comedy industry at a gathering in the Houses of Parliament yesterday.

Comedy stars have signed up to support lo-fi psychedelic punk duo The Lovely Eggs on their tour this autumn. The musicians will be joined by the likes of Stewart Lee, Frank Skinner and Phill Jupitus ...