Joel Dommett and his wife Hannah Cooper have welcomed their second child. The pair announced the arrival of Dutch Cooper-Dommett on Instagram today, saying that the boy was ‘super late like his Father ...

The Live Comedy Association is to hold an event at the Houses of Parliament next month, aimed at building political support for grassroots comedy. The body has been working to get the government to ...

Here’s the official trailer for the second series of Smoggie Queens, before it returns to the BBC next Friday. Creator Phil Dunning plays lead character Dickie with Mark Benton, Alexandra Mardell, ...

However, it’s not really a play. If I Didn't Laugh I'd Cry: The Frank Carson Story may, putatively, be set as the Northern Irish comic recovers in hospital from a heart attack in his 50s, but any ...

Rich Wilson got into comedy after working as a barman at the Up The Creek club in Greenwich, South London. Inspired by the comedians he saw, he gave it a go himself in 2004, and has since become a ...

Dominic Holland has performed five solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival; his first, in 1993, winning him the Perrier best newcomer award. He was nominated for the main prize three years later. In 2000 ...

• Thirst: Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life by John Robins is published by Viking and is available from Amazon priced £15.29 in hardback – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, which supports independent ...

Saturday Night Live UK will return for a second series, Sky has announced. The second run will be expanded to 12 episodes – up from the eight in the current run – and will air between between autumn ...

Johnny Vegas is to play a priest in one of the next films in 5’s Play For Today. The comic – who briefly trained as a priest before turning to comedy – plays the troubled Father Adam in the ‘darkly ...

Ricky Gervais's animated series Alley Cats will launch on August 7, Netflix has announced. In the six-part adult comedy, which has been described as a ‘slacker sitcom’, Gervais voices one of a group ...

A raft of comedians including Roisin Conaty, Ghosts’ Jim Howick and SNL UK’s Hammed Animashaun are to have guest roles in the second series of Death Valley. Also making appearances are Mike Bubbins, ...

Claire Nielson, who played the glamorous American Mrs Hamilton in Fawlty Towers, has died at the age of 89. In the third episode of the second series of the sitcom, her character arrives at the ...