It’s not a great time to be a public service broadcaster in the UK, but credit where it’s due for their backing of the comedy circuit. One day after the BBC unveiled Eli Hart as their New Comedy Award ...

The annual Christmas ad battle might finally be coming to an end - and even John Lewis could be in trouble. Brands have been making increasingly sad songs to a slowed-down piano version of a formerly ...

I got to hang out more with Joel [Davison] who plays my grandson Theo and we bonded; he’s such a nice fella and interesting funny bloke. When I look at the montage sequences and the credits which are ...

Tom Basden has won a British Independent Film Award for his music in The Ballad of Wallis Island. He and composer Adem Ilhan last night won the accolade for best original music for the movie, which ...

Tom Towelling has won this year’s Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award. The offbeat comic took the title at a showcase in Bradford last night, following in the footsteps of previous winners Eric Rushton ...

When people like it, they like it a lot. I know several comedians who think it's the funniest book ever written. I don't blow my own trumpet because I haven't taken credit for ideas for 30 years. They ...

The first names have been announced for next year’s 40th anniversary Melbourne International Comedy Festival – with a number of Brits among them.

American broadcaster CNN has released the trailer for the new biopic I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not. Billed as ‘authorised yet unfiltered’, the film takes its title from Chase’s biography and the ...

Filming has started on the BBC comedy pilot Shedites, based around a place where ‘men can make themselves useful building and repairing things’. Set in an Irish village, the show has been created and ...

ITV has released some teaser clips for the third series of Alan Carr’s Changing Ends. The comedy returns on Sunday, and will be stripped across the week with new episode airing directly after I’m A ...

The cast of Peep Show are reuniting for a Christmas Bake Off special. David Mitchell, Olivia Colman, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman are taking part in the special – but Robert Webb is ...

Thirty years on, and The Fast Show isn’t short of fans. This reunion tour which started last year is running into next, and catchphrases – the word ‘arse’, specifically – are yelled before the cast ...