At one point I was slurping down some soda and a joke hit so hard I laughed, choked, and all this coke came spraying out of my nose and into the bucket of popcorn in my lap. My friends were so mad! I ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: ...

MANCHESTER: The ongoing Creatures Comedy Festival has declared today 'Northern Takeover Day' with acts front the region including Rob Auton, Jack Carroll and working-class acts from Best In Class, ...

As an interactive, randomised sketch show where anything could happen it encompasses the energy of the Fringe, and that’s why we want to debut in Edinburgh.’ May has been a the Fringe before with her ...

Here’s Channel 4’s new format A Short Walk To The Pub with Alexander Ubiquitous. It’s a sketch from Michael Spicer’s new online sketch show, Media Studies, which is available here: ...

American comedy talk show institution The ​Late Show with Stephen Colbert is to end in May, the CBS network has unexpectedly announced. Executives said the surprise move was a ‘purely a financial ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up. The Father Ted and ...

The BBC’s TV comedy budget fell seven per cent last year, its new annual report reveals. Accounts show that spending on the genre fell from £241million in the year 2023/24 to £224million last year.

Channel 4 has dropped Bridget Christie ’s comedy The Change, despite the comedian’s plans to end the story with a third series. She said the news came as a ‘huge blow’ – but said she hoped to be able ...

Stand-up Laura Lexx and comedy historian Dr Oliver Double are to launch a video podcast about comedy. Lexx describes the show as ‘nerdy in a leather-bound way: libraries and dust motes, and poring ...

Satirist Rosie Holt has written a new play about Rachel Reeves's real-life fight to get rid of the urinal in her private bathroom at No11 Downing Street. Britain's first female Chancellor was last ...