Laura Lexx’s Slinky was named best show at the Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester last night. The comic suffered for her art during her gig, as she bruised her leg getting on to the stage for the ...

Comedy Clubhouse co-owner John Allis said: ‘We are excited to launch our first ever Fringe festival. Barcelona is world-famous for its art and culture but, until recently, was a bit of a backwater for ...

Radio 4 has commissioned what’s thought to be its first sitcom ever to be made in Northern Ireland. Parish matters is based around the weekly parish council meetings in a town somewhere in Ulster, ...

Radio 4 has ordered a full series of Travis Jay ’s sitcom, Rum Punch. The comic writes and stars in the show as Marley, a conflict-averse aspiring boxer who works in his parents’ Caribbean restaurant ...

A new release date has been set for Ivo Graham ’s first book, exploring his 'professional meltdowns’ and ‘general bedlam of his life’. Yardsticks For Failure – which promises ‘a gleeful glimpse behind ...

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll has landed a new BBC sitcom. The comedian says bosses ‘loved’ the pilot of his new show Shedites, and that it will air this autumn Starring veteran comic ...

Kemah Bob is to embark on her first tour with her show Miss Fortunate. She has announced UK dates in March and April, following a four-night run at London’s Soho Theatre from November 6.

Lord Sugar has been slammed after appearing to call Chris McCausland ’s blindness a ‘gimmick’. The man who made would-be entrepreneurs bake mini-cheesecakes for the London Dungeon in the last series ...

RACHEL BLOOM: DEATH, LET ME DO MY SPECIAL: This 'whimsical and reflective' musical comedy special originally ran as an ...

Feuding Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher appeared on Saturday Night Live last night. Or at least James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman played the siblings, to talk about their band's ...

The comedian and dance partner Dianne Buswell scored 30 points for their also Down Under by Men at Work, a nod to Buswell’s homeland. McCausland joked that the dance had ‘more bloody lifts than Canary ...

The writer and actor headed to Norfolk for the documentary programme, Myth Country, trying to get a glimpse of Black Shuck, a ...