A former market researcher, Carmarthen-born Rhod Gilbert began his comedy career in 2002, after taking a stand-up course. That year he made the finals of the So You Think You're Funny? talent hunt at ...

The single greatest joke on The Goon Show (‘It’s no good I’m going to have to get a pen and write all this down’ (IYKYK)) does it, and it’s a magic trick that the Crybabies pull off over and over ...

Former Cambridge Footlights president who won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedy Award at the start of his stand-up career. He was one of the contestants in series seven of Taskmaster in 2018 - the same ...

• Inside No 9 Stage/Fright runs at Wydham's Theatre, London, until April 5. All pictures © Marc Brenner ...

Flight Of The Conchords comedian Jemaine Clement is to star in a new comedy series from the makers of Baby Reindeer. The Kiwi comic will star alongside The Split's Nicola Walker in Alice And Steve, ...

Eight winners - chosen by a strict points system – will be asked to perform alongside headliners Munya Chawawa (pictured) , Larry Dean, Chris Hall and Grace Campbell at Nando’s in London on March 31, ...

Former Late Late Show bandleader Reggie Watts is to be the third comedy headliner at this year’s Latitude Festival, it has been announced today. The improvising musical comedian joins Greg Davies and ...

Filming has begun on the second series of Daddy Issues, the comedy starring David Morrissey and Aimee Lou Wood as father and daughter. The first series last year attracted an average of 1.6million ...

Shetland-born stand-up Marjolein Robertson is to release her first stand-up show as a free YouTube special on Sunday. Marj – which she first performed at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe – mixes comedy ...

In celebration of her memoirs of the same name. From drama school, (mostly drinking cider and eating sausage rolls), sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, ...

Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.

Comedy cabaret performer Mat Ricardo has written his first book, described as a ‘self-help guide for children’. The Magic In You – subtitled ‘dare to be brilliant’ – gives youngsters tips on honing ...