Joey Shea, Saudi Arabia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: ‘Comedians performing in Riyadh should speak out against Saudi Arabia’s serious rights abuses or they risk bolstering the Saudi ...

Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are to celebrate the town of Porthcawl in the second BBC Wales tribute. The new programme will follow the friends as they tour Ruth’s hometown - 20 miles from Barry, where ...

Here’s the first trailer and for the BBC‘s romantic comedy-drama Film Club. The series has been co-created by Daddy Issues, Sex Education and The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood. She also plays Evie, ...

Nicola Mantalios has won this year’s Funny Women stage award in the guise of her alter-ego Zoe. The Newcastle-based comic was previously a finalist in the Laughing Horse and the So You Think You’re ...

British comedian Chris Turner ’s freestyle rapping has secured him second place in this year’s America’s Got Talent. Singer Jessica Sanchez – who had previously competed in the first season when she ...

Natalie Casey, who Carol Groves in Hollyoaks and Donna Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, plays the Sheriff of Nottingham with Mateo Oxley, who was recently Richard Hannay in The 39 ...

Work is under way on a film about the life of Caroline Aherne. Titled Half The World Away – in honour of the Oasis song that served as The Royle Family’s theme tune – the biopic has already been ...

Here is Mackenzie Crook from the set of his new BBC comedy Small Prophets. The Detectorists creator wrote and directs the series, which is described as combining the 'magical and the mundane’ in a ...

Former Perrier winner Will Adamsdale is to tour a new show about writing a sitcom with Chat GPT. Entitled AI, AI, Oh…, it will play a series of dates in the South West of England this autumn.

Paul Merton is to go inside the driver’s cab of some of the world’s most famous trains in a six-part series for Channel 4. The comic will go to Germany, France, Switzerland, Wales, northern England ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about the comedy of ...

TikTok joker Niall Gray and former Top Gear producer Sacha Clayton spent £3,700 ‘ruining' a pristine 1997 Fiat Cinquecento to turn it into a copy of the motor from the sitcom, complete with a single ...