John Cleese has made a behind-the-scenes documentary about his live show. John Cleese Packs It In follows the Fawlty Towers and Monty Python legend as he visits 16 European cities and performs 23 ...

Comedians Laura Smyth and Jen Brister are to go on the run in the next series of Celebrity Hunted. The pair are following in the footsteps of fellow comics Ed Gamble and James Acaster, who memorably ...

Comedians Laura Smyth and Jen Brister are to go on the run in the next series of Celebrity Hunted. The pair are following in the footsteps of fellow comics Ed Gamble and James Acaster, who memorably ...

It came after Hunter clashed with antisemitism campaigners Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The pair heckled an anti-Israel joke, with the response reportedly turning ...

Comedian Louise Young and YouTuber Hayley Morris plan a trip to Europe on the hoof in a new Channel 4 travel show. All Plans On Deck is a commercial tie-in with P&O Ferries, with the premise that the ...

The Ecole Philippe Gaulier clown school has produced a number of memorable Fringe performers in recent years, and Jessica Barton looks set to join their ranks with this, her quirky take on the prim, ...

Finally, Sam Nicoresti, who I just think is going to have an absolutely massive Fringe. Their last show Wokeflake was bewilderingly high-concept, mixing satirical character comedy with frog-based ...

Frank Skinner has revealed that he ended up in A&E with severe sunburn after working on an archaeological dig in extreme heat.

Vir Das has dropped the trailer for his new Netflix special Fool Volume. The show was filmed in a stadium in Mumbai, London’s Union Chapel and the Comedy Cellar in New York. But as the Indian comic ...

Technicians who run the sound and lights for Edinburgh Fringe comedy shows are to be honoured with their own award for the first time this year. Comedian Elf Lyons has put up a £500 prize to go to ‘an ...

More explicit humour relies a lot on shocking the audience (rather than on allusion and confounding expectations) and not surprisingly usually appeals more to a younger audience. The laughter is based ...

Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding says she communicates with Eric Morecambe after buying his old desk. The paranormal investigator said: ‘Every time I sit down to write and do my paranormal ...