Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

Simon Bird is to direct a comedy film about a couple who offer refuge to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Second World War. Pretend I'm Not Here will star Matthew Broderick, Sally Hawkins and ...

The BBC are to release a new series of comedy pilots featuring the likes of Fatiha El-Ghorri, Elaine C. Smith and Jordan Brookes. El-Ghorri stats in the first – Donkey – which airs on BBC Three at ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Samira Banks has signed up to the Blue Book comedy agency. The comic won So You Think You’re Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, after just six months of performing stand up. She has performed as ...

Daisy May Cooper is in the cast of the new Astérix & Obélix animated series, it has been announced. The Am I Being Unreasonable star plays Impedimenta, the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, in ...

Alex Horne conducts a post-task interview with Mat Baynton on set of the 19th series of Taskmaster. The Ghosts star says he ...

Here's Alex Horne's post-task interview with Rosie Ramsey on set of the 19th series of Taskmaster. In it she says her husband Chris is probably her role model when it comes to approaching the ...

Here are the first images from inside the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow, which opens on Friday with a run of Natalie Palamides ’ show Weer. The 960-seat venue has been restored from the former 1930s ...

Chris McCasuland is to make a BBC Two documentary on how technology has been life-changing for him, and what the future holds. The hour-long programme is titled Chris Mccausland: Seeing Into the ...

The Second Best Time Of Your Life starts with a self-deprecating parody of the swagger inherent in most American stand-up, the glitzy, arriving-at-the-theatre opening making way for a shot of him ...

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton has won this year’s Bafta for comedy writing for the final series of Inside No 9. The pair collected their accolades at the academy’s Craft Awards – which is ...