Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week we celebrate Olivia Colman's 51st ...

Comedian Leigh Francis says he doesn’t regret anything he has done in the past but concedes that he would ‘probably change’ some things, as he looks back on some of his past controversies.

Entries have opened for this year’s David Nobbs comedy writing competition, set up in 2017 after the death of the Reggie Perrin author. The competition offers cash prizes to up-and-coming comedy UK ...

Dara Ó Briain is to present a new TV documentary about volcanos. The two-part series will air on Channel 5, for which the comedian has previously fronted shows about the Sun, the Moon and pyramids.

It already had a bad reputation, thanks largely to John John Betjeman’s savage 1937 lines ‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now’. But Ricky Gervais has been accused of ...

Jamaican-born comedian Dale Elliott Jr – known for his internet sketches – has announced a European with his new show Son Of An Immigrant. The stand-up will play Dublin on June 22 followed by seven ...

Ria Lina, the leading Filipina comedian in British stand-up realised last year that she wasn’t just awake, she was ready to rebel. Expect a relentless stream of hilarity as Ria explores the state of ...

Natalie Palamides is to open Soho Theatre’s new venue in Walthamstow, it has been announced tonight. The American comedian’s acclaimed show Weer will be the first to take over the 1,000-seat former ...

Alan Davies is touring the UK for the first time in ten years. He thinks he’s Marty McFly but he’s older than Doc Brown. He spends more time in the pharmacy than the gym. He needs to get his blood ...