Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam reprise their stage roles as the widowed Frank and the single Percy, who meet while walking their dogs on Hampstead Heath. They start by exchanging small talk, which ...

Jack Rooke is to return to the Soho Theatre revisiting his breakthrough show about loss. The comic who created the autobiographical comedy Big Boys for Channel 4 first performed Good Grief at the ...

Joe Thomas plays Nigel, one of the founders of the Northern Lights-seeking Alliance Of Ultra-Reliable Observers Ready for Aurora Spotting in this new mockumentary. It is part of a campaign put ...

For most comedians, a corporate gig might involve something like a regional plumbing awards. For Jack Whitehall it's honouring high-end jewellers such as Louis Vuitton and Tiffany at the Grand Prix de ...

If you’re young and new, you’re ‘one to watch’. If you’re male and middle-aged, you’re ‘seasoned’. If you’re female and over 40, you’re ‘brave’.

Jimmy Carr address whether it’s arsehole-like behaviour to insist on the toilet seat being left down. The dilemma comes from the comic’s show Am I The A**hole, which airs on Monday from 9pm on Comedy ...

Irish stand-ups have stepped up their campaign to make comedy eligible for arts funding. Sinn Féin politician Aengus Ó Snodaigh has introduced a Bill to the Dáil to add the single word ‘comedy’ after ...

Ed Gamble is to appear on The Wheel this weekend. Here he is sharing a joke about his chiselled jaw with host Michael McIntyre, in a clip that also features Jonathan Ross and Jo Brand. Michael ...

Andrew Sachs’s old Fawlty Towers scripts are tipped to fetch more £5,000 at auction. Six of the actor’s scripts from the hit sitcom are going under the hammer with estimates of up to £1,200 each.

Bill Burr is to shoot a coming-of-age comedy in Ireland, described as ‘Superbad meets Derry Girls’. He has been cast in Bender, based on the experiences of writer Adrian Cunningham growing up in ...

The Simpsons have come to Fortnite. From now until November 29, players have an entire stylised map based on Springfield to explore, from Moe’s Tavern to the nuclear power plant. And character skins ...

She’s already won a raft of new act titles – including the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny at the Edinburgh Fringe – but Madeleine Brettingham again showed what a promising talent she is by ...