Tributes have been paid to Susan Vale, a stalwart of the Manchester comedy circuit back of the late 1990s, following her death from lung cancer.

John Bishop has announced a major UK and Ireland tour for spring 2027. The Liverpool-born comic will perform his new show, Let's Go Round Again, at some of the biggest venues across both countries in ...

Sky has appointed former Top Gear showrunner Lisa Clark to oversee the UK remake of Saturday Night Live. The broadcaster has appointed her as commissioning executive to ‘help shape the series’ when it ...

• The Cambridge Footlights: A Very British Comedy Institution by Robert Sellers was published by Methuen Drama yesterday. It is available from Amazon priced £23 in hardback – or from uk.bookshop.org, ...

Sir Lenny Henry is to perform at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk this summer – his only UK music festival performance of the year. The 66-year-old will headline the festival's comedy arena alongside ...

The last film role recorded by Terry Jones before his death in 2020 is coming to cinemas. The Monty Python comic provides one of the voices in the animated adventure In The Land Of Sometimes, which ...

Alan Carr is to buy and run a Scottish castle, with his efforts documented in a new TV series. The comic starts filming the programme, provisionally titled Castle Man, for US streamer Hulu today. He ...

Does fame change people? Stand-up Phil Ellis has revealed that after landing his big TV break on Taskmaster, he’s opted to have a hair transplant. The comic, 44, said he decided to take action after ...

The winners of the 2026 BBC Audio Drama Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Sunday March 1 at the BBC’s Radio Theatre. Click here for a full list of finalists.

Cruz has stayed loyal to the rest of the family after Brooklyn, 26, distanced himself from the clan following his marriage to model and socialite Nicola Peltz, 31, in 2022.

And the perfect fodder for the talking-head programme Football's Best VAR Moments. Michael Spicer uses all the clichés of the genre to unpack the offside decision with the forensic vigour we expect of ...

Amy Annette, Matt Hutchinson and Ray Bradshaw are all recording their stand-up specials for Radio 4. Annette’s show is called I Survived The Noughties and is described as a ‘part nostalgia trip, part ...