Here's James Acaster talking about dealing with interruptions to his stand-up in his special Hecklers Welcome. The show, ...

Stewart Lee has given his support to striking Guardian journalists. Staff at the paper are angry over a proposed sale ofThe ...

Mark Watson has announced a new tour, loosely based on the advance of artificial intelligence. Before It Overtakes Us also covers the comic’s experiences when a flight he was on in in Australia last ...

Duncan Norvelle, the comedian who shot to fame in the 1980s with his catchphrase ‘Chase me’ has died at the aged of 66.

Former Cambridge Footlights president who won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedy Award at the start of his stand-up career. He was one of the contestants in series seven of Taskmaster in 2018 - the same ...

In 2023, Mark spoke to a customer-service representative called Phoebe for almost half an hour before realising that ‘she’ was a chatbot. It sent him down a rabbit-hole exploring ChatGPT and its ...

Sid Singh makes much play of how this is a divisive show, believing at least half the audience will agree with the critic who this summer gave him his first two-star review in 15 years of comedy.

Brett Goldstein’s new comedy film will land on Apple TV+ next year, after the tech giant’s film division snapped up the title. Set in the near future when a test scientifically matches people up with ...

Aisling Bea is again hosting a food drive and benefit gigs for Hackney Foodbank. She and her comedy friends will be taking over the Bill Murray in Islington, North London, on the afternoon of December ...

It might have revitalised his career – as well as his own love of comedy – but Ted Danson has admitted he initially hated Curb Your Enthusiasm. He said when he and wife Mary Steenburgen watched the ...

Brendan O’Carroll has revived the prospect of a Mrs Brown’s Boys cartoon – more than 15 years after first raising the idea.

The Chortle Hotshots scheme is open to any stand-up, sketch team or musical, character or clowning act performing their first 50-minute-plus show in the comedy section of the Fringe programme for at ...