Kenneth Williams would have been 100 years old this weekend, had he not died of an overdose in April 1988. And in tribute, Robin Ince reads a tribute to the comedian – who he briefly encountered when ...

Two of the stars of The Young Ones are to headline this year's Rik Mayall Comedy Festival in Droitwich Spa, the Worcestershire town where the comedian grew up. Alexei Sayle will appear in an 'in ...

Alan Carr has reportedly snapped up a Scottish castle very similar to the one where he filmed Traitors. The comedian paid £3.25million for Ayton Castle in the Borders, which he will now convert into a ...

Janine Harouni missed out on the $500,000 top prize on Netflix talent show Star Search last night. The comedian, from New York’s Staten Island but now based in London, has made the final of the glitzy ...

But that's all part of the fun and the audience is in on it. They know I'm leaning hard into being a fusty, provincial middle-aged man, harder than I might in day-to-day life. That's part of the game.

In honour of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's arrest Spitting Image has released this carefully crafted ex-royal souvenir... compilation of sketches featuring the creep formerly known as Prince. It all ...

When Zac Lammas suffered a brain injury at 16, doctors gave him less than a one per cent chance of survival. And next week, he will live out a dream when he performs a sketch on the Comedy Store stage ...

They also have some cool programming blocks, with various weekends or venues being taken over by groups like Liebenspiel or the Weirdos, allowing them to run a series of tonally sympathetic solo shows ...

One of the acts will be chosen as one of our official Hotshots for 2026, with the Fringe registration free paid and a packaged of promotional help'. Further gigs – with line-ups to be announced – are ...

Now comedians are to take over the space for a night of comedy about engineering . Hosted by science communicator Steve Cross, the line-up of the March 4 gig features Shiv Kapila, Shalaka Kurup, ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all about Pixar movies. Good luck!

Grant and Naylor published Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers in 1989 under the collective name Grant Naylor, with the sequel Better Than Life coming out the next year, followed by two ...