Peter Richardson is reviving his Comic Strip Presents… brand for a series of gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe. The creator of the trailblazing comedy collective will be in conversation with Robin Ince and ...

The BBC are to release a new series of comedy pilots featuring the likes of Fatiha El-Ghorri, Elaine C. Smith and Jordan Brookes. El-Ghorri stats in the first – Donkey – which airs on BBC Three at ...

Simon Bird is to direct a comedy film about a couple who offer refuge to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Second World War. Pretend I'm Not Here will star Matthew Broderick, Sally Hawkins and ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Former drama teacher Davies sprang to fame via The Inbetweeners, and has subsequently starred in BBC Three's Cuckoo, Channel 4's Man Down, which he also wrote, and is the all-powerful Taskmaster on ...

Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

Samira Banks has signed up to the Blue Book comedy agency. The comic won So You Think You’re Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, after just six months of performing stand up. She has performed as ...

Nominated for best show at the 2019 Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Alex Horne conducts a post-task interview with Mat Baynton on set of the 19th series of Taskmaster. The Ghosts star says he ...

Here's Alex Horne's post-task interview with Rosie Ramsey on set of the 19th series of Taskmaster. In it she says her husband Chris is probably her role model when it comes to approaching the ...

Daisy May Cooper is in the cast of the new Astérix & Obélix animated series, it has been announced. The Am I Being Unreasonable star plays Impedimenta, the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, in ...

The thing you can’t actually see as a viewer, and you can't feel to the full extent, is when you go out to that room and someone says, ‘Good evening everyone,’ or a comedian comes out and makes a joke ...