Rosie O’Donnell is to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut – 45 years after starting her stand-up career The American comedian had her own daytime talk show from 1996 to 2002, when she earned the nickname ...

The Oblivion Boys – comprising Mark Arden and Stephen Frost – are also back. As well as appearances on Saturday Live, The Young Ones and The Black Adder in the 1980s, the pair also became familiar to ...

Bradley Cooper’s new film is based on the life of John Bishop, one of its stars has revealed. The film, Is This Thing On?, stars Will Arnett as a newly divorced man who develops a love for stand-up.

The Big Belly Comedy Club on London’s South Bank has announced a three-day festival from June 20, with events running at multiple venues, with fans buying wristbands for £35 a day or £50 for the full ...

Peter Richardson is reviving his Comic Strip Presents… brand for a series of gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe. The creator of the trailblazing comedy collective will be in conversation with Robin Ince 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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

The thing you can’t actually see as a viewer, and you can't feel to the full extent, is when you go out to that room and someone says, ‘Good evening everyone,’ or a comedian comes out and makes a joke ...