Rosie O’Donnell is to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut – 45 years after starting her stand-up career The American comedian had her own daytime talk show from 1996 to 2002, when she earned the nickname ...

The Oblivion Boys – comprising Mark Arden and Stephen Frost – are also back. As well as appearances on Saturday Live, The Young Ones and The Black Adder in the 1980s, the pair also became familiar to ...

The Big Belly Comedy Club on London’s South Bank has announced a three-day festival from June 20, with events running at multiple venues, with fans buying wristbands for £35 a day or £50 for the full ...

Bradley Cooper’s new film is based on the life of John Bishop, one of its stars has revealed. The film, Is This Thing On?, stars Will Arnett as a newly divorced man who develops a love for stand-up.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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