OXFORD: 'Gleefully irascible,' storyteller and comedian Desiree Burch addresses mid-life crisis and the menopause in her new stand-up hour The Golden Wrath, covering the experiences of losing sleep, ...

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Paul Merton and Ian Hislop return for the show’s 70th series, marking 35 years on air. Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts today with Sheila Hancock and Miles Jupp as the panellists ...

One of the least experienced acts opened the night, Madeleine Brettingham, fresh from her victory at the So You Think You’re Funny? very new act hunt at the Edinburgh Fringe last month. But she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...