Comics James Acaster, Joanne McNally, Joe Lycett, Miranda Hart, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan are to be in the next series of The Celebrity Traitors. The BBC has confirmed the 21 famous faces in ...

No suspicious items were found after Peter Kay’s Birmingham gig was evacuated last night because of a bomb scare. The ...

Comedian Mark Bittlestone has been exposed for promoting antisemitic messages online. The stand-up is standing as a Green Party candidate in Lambeth, South London, in next week’s local elections – ...

Hannah Waddingham and Ncuti Gatwa will host the next two episodes of Saturday Night Live UK, it has been announced. On May 9, the Ted Lasso star will be joined by singer-songwriter Myles Smith as the ...

BBC Scotland has commissioned a series of short comedy programmes for YouTube, featuring established performers including Jack Docherty and stand-up Marc Jennings. The first of the new projects will ...

Graham Linehan has had his conviction for damaging a transgender activist's phone overturned. Last November, the Father Ted co-creator was cleared of harassing Sophia Brooks on social media but ...

Frank Skinner, Julian Clary and Mark Steel have joined this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. They are among 65 new shows today announced as part of Assembly Festival’s programme, which now runs to more than ...

MPs are asking for evidence about the experiences of women working in comedy. Parliament’s women and equalities committee especially wants to hear about sexual harassment, pay inequality and the ...

Sir Lenny Henry will headline this year’s Rode Comedy Festival, the Somerset event has announced. Henry will be joined in the headline slots by Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Tom Davis, Jen ...

Comedians Lucy Beaumont, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Richard Herring will be taking part in a new celebrity edition of Channel 4’s Great Pottery Throw Down. They will be joined by Paul Merson, actor Layton ...

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have paid tribute to Ted, the dog who accompanied them on Gone Fishing, after his death was announced. Whitehouse said: ‘Bye bye Ted old friend. He wasn’t a dog, he ...

The Glee comedy clubs have vowed to give a platform to comedians even if what they say is 'controversial, unsettling, offensive or politically charged’. Britain’s largest chain of comedy venues has ...