We Are Lady Parts returns to Channel 4 for its second series on Thursday. Here creator Nida Manzoor talks about exploring ...

The line-up has been announced for this year’s London Fast Fringe – offering bite-sized previews of 28 Edinburgh shows in one manic night. Arthur Smith will again host this frenetic comedy institution ...

The line-up has been announced for the first Creatures Comedy Festival, featuring 30 shows across ten days in Manchester. The programme has been put together by Creatures Comedy Club – a ...

Political comedian Matt Forde is attempting to interview a candidate from all 650 constituencies before polling day. The comic’s podcast The Political Party is to return next week with daily episodes ...

Rule one of advertising your Edinburgh Fringe show is to use an eye-catching image – and Rob Mulholland has certainly done that. For the stand-up is using a picture not of himself, but of Tom Binns – ...

Best-selling author and comedy legend Michael Palin is going back on the road, bringing to life his forthcoming diary, There and Back. 10 years after his last published diary, Michael unlocks volume ...

Comic Dave Bibby has helped Simon Cowell pull a prank on Ant & Dec on Britain’s Got Talent. The stand-up pretended to be a baker who wanted to set a record for the most custard pies thrown at him in ...

Shearsmith revealed that their television breakthrough, The League Of Gentlemen, which they created with Mark Gatiss and ...

'Mrs Brown's Boys … that's what I think of as broad [cough] comedy.' Despite the laughter in the room this casual swipe ...

Sian Gibson's sitcom The Power of Parker is to return to BBC One for a second series. The series is set in 1992 and stars ...

Comedian Kevin Finn impressed the judges with his spot-on impressions of UK accents on Britain’s Got Talent last night. The stand-up actually comes from Ontario, Canada, but accurately captured the ...

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region. LONDON: With fortuitous timing ...