Lauren Pattison and Tom Machell are making a second series of their Radio 4 sitcom Tom and Lauren Are Going OOT! Julian Clary returns as their neighbour Neil with comic Louise Young also back as ...

One of the biggest venues at the Edinburgh Fringe has been forced to close as the city braces itself for storm-force winds. The Pleasance Courtyard will remain closed until at least 6pm today as Storm ...

Ian Smith’s had a good year, which he fears might be kryptonite for his stand-up, given how much solid-gold material he got last year from his mental breakdown. Stress is funny - you only have to look ...

Joe Sib is a vivid first-hand chronicler of a world we’re losing – if we haven’t lost it already. As a teenager in 1980s California, he discovered punk and threw himself into the scene whole-heartedly ...

Comedy Central has unveiled the line-up of guests taking part in the new panel show Iain Stirling’s Roast The Internet. The eight hour-long episodes, starting on Monday September 1 , feature comedians ...

Amelia Hamilton says: 'There are two types of men – I avoid both’. But the musical comedian admits that’s hard as she works in male-dominated STEM, science, technology, engineering and maths. Yet ...

The bakery co-owned by Romesh Ranganathan is opening another branch. Coughlans Bakery is to open in Horsham, Sussex, joining 31 existing sites in the South East of England.

Go West Old Maid is more restless than her acclaimed solo debut, Farm Fatale, not quite so well-balanced between oddness and narrative. But the unhinged charisma with which Norris delivers her ...

‘In 2023, Mark Simmons and Danny Ward organised a show for the much-loved Gareth Richards, a comedian who had died in a car crash. They raised £20,000 for his family and, fittingly, won the first ...

In her approach to comedy, Lorna Rose Treen is something of an old soul. Her 24 Hour Diner People has the sensibilities of those 1950s radio shows where big variety-hall performances were shoehorned ...

Britt Migs’ version is upbeat and punchy as well as cathartic. It has the American club-honed impetus of putting a gag on every other beat, taking no time for introspection nor going into too much ...

Harry Hill says he was inspired to leave medicine to become a comedian by the death of his stepfather Tony. Speaking on Desert Island Discs today, the comic said his change of career in the early ...