Paul Putner is reviving his character The Curious Orange for a comic book. The actor and comedian played the inquisitive citrus in Stewart Lee and Richard Herring ’s 1990s BBC Two series This Morning ...

Comedians are to test their penalty-taking skills in a new YouTube series, hosted by Chloe Petts. Nish Kumar and Harriet Kemsley are among those who have signed up for the show, which will be made by ...

HENRY NORMAL: The 11th installment in the coccasional radio series form the comic poet – and former comedy uber-producer – offers verses and other musings under the heading of 'Humanity'. This one was ...

Veteran comedian Barry Ferns has told how his dedication to the Edinburgh Fringe left his bankrupt and homeless. The stand-up first performed at the festival in 1999 – but racked up £5,000 in debt for ...

The series about a single mother and her two young adult daughters in Crawley was written by Kat Sadler, who stars alongside her real-life sister Lizzie Davidson. Its cast also includes Louise Brealey ...

Organisers of the Aberdeen Fringe Festival have put out a final call to those who want to perform at this year’s event, before tomorrow’s deadline. The three-day event, now in its third year, will ...

She said: ‘I have watched too many TV shows that have one disabled person, and you can tell that the writer or creator has gone, "Oh, we’ll write one disabled character. We will give all the disabled ...

Jimmy Akingbola, who hosted the first five seasons, is unavailable for the sixth as he will be filming Bel-Air, the Peacock series which reimagines The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as a drama. He stars as ...

I hadn’t been to a final of the LGBTQ+ New Comedian Of The Year competition since the very first, held in a small, packed, raucous and sweaty Covent Garden venue.

GB News has officially axed Headliners, its late-night newspaper round-up fronted by comedians. A number of the comics who regularly appear on the daily programme have confirmed that it has been ...

Will Smith has heard the Phoenix Nights version of Men In Black for the first time – and declared it ‘genius’. In Peter Kay ’s sitcom, co-writer Dave Spikey ’s Jerry St. Clair gets a job in a ...

An East London school has scooped the title of Britain’s Funniest Class in the annual competition, fun by the Beano. Stratus Class (Year 5) from Riverley Primary School in Leyton, London, beat ...