• My Previous Life In Comedy by Johnny Ball, is published by The Book Guild, is available from Amazon priced £10.99 in paperback and £5.99 on Kindle – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, which supports ...

At the heart of the New Zealander’s latest show is an unflattering portrait of the sort of ‘dumb’ and unemotional parents that produced not one but three comedians, with Guy’s siblings Paul and Maria ...

While Fresh New Worries doesn’t have the powerful, life-affirming impact of her breakout show, Cosgriff remains a beacon of warm positivity, offering another sweetly upbeat show – even when the topic ...

Yes, Coombs Marr is among the sizeable ranks of comics with the condition. And yes, it most definitely defines her scattergun style, a freeflowing stream of stories and ideas prone to wild digressions ...

Sue Perkins has announced her first full-length stand-up show in nearly 20 years. The former Bake-Off host and Taskmaster contestant will be playing more than 40 British cities in the first quarter of ...

In her first full-length stand-up show in nearly 20 years, Sue delivers a hilarious treatise on stigma, humiliation, and misunderstanding.

Rowdy behaviour marred comedy gigs by Paul Chowdhry and John Bishop this weekend. Police were called to Chowdhry’s show at the Cliffs Pavilion in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex on Saturday when a fight broke ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. This week's questions celebrate 50 years of The Good ...

Jimmy Carr says a big difference between him and Peter Kay is that when he ejects people from his shows, ‘they get kicked out for a reason’. His comments come after the Car Share comic hit the ...

Jon Richardson is not giving up comedy after all. The stand-up yesterday announced that he would be quitting the industry to become a teacher, with his agent issuing a statement confirming the news ...

Filming has begun on the new series of Mawaan Rizwan ’s BBC Three comedy Juice.

As most Chortle readers will know, Maria Bamford is your favourite comedian’s favourite comedian, which is a title you can really only acquire off the back of decades of grind and craft-honing and ...