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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glenn Moore was nominated for best show at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. As a newcomer he was runner-up in the 2011 Chortle Student Comedy Award, and finalist in So You Think You're Funny 2012 ...

The son of old-school Irish comedian Mike McCabe - who once won New Faces - Milo is a character comedian who usually performs on the circuit as Philberto, Portugal's top reality TV star. As himself, ...

A lot of very serious people have written a lot of very serious things about the humble joke. Freud thought they subconsciously revealed suppressed sexual desires – but then he would – while Nietzsche ...