A raft of familiar comedy names including Ruth Jones, Jon Pointing and Amy Gledhill have been cast in the next Harlan Coben thriller to be made for Netflix. Friday Night Dinner’s Tracy-Ann Oberman, ...

Born and raised in the West Country, Bill Bailey showed an early passion for music, forming the school band Behind Closed Doors. It was also at school that he acquired the nickname Bill, thanks to a ...

Dom Joly has made a new comedy sketch that highlights the everyday struggles of small business owners. Shot in Trigger Happy TV hidden-camera style, the clip features the comic as an overwhelmed ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's theme is all things large. Good luck!

Applications are now open for this year’s So You Think You’re Funny? new act competition. Founded by Gilded Balloon boss Karen Koren in 1988, the talent hunt is the oldest amateur stand up comedy ...

Birds of a Feather star Pauline Quirke has retired from acting, with her husband revealing that she was diagnosed with dementia in 2021. The 65-year-old – who played Sharon in the long-running sitcom ...

Liz Truss made her way to Washington to be part of Donald Trump's inauguration yesterday. And it is surely only an administrative cock-up that meant she, and that other great friend of the 47th ...