Channel 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have selected three half-hour scripts to be written as part of the broadcaster’s Comedy Lab in Northern Ireland, offering a major opportunity for writers to ...

The BBC has ordered a ‘darkly comedic’ crime drama based on the novels of former comic Caimh McDonnell and co-created by ex stand-up Chris Addison. Addison, now a director and writer whose credits ...

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special. A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins’s work contributed to ‘the spread of ...

Katherine Ryan has revealed she is pregnant with her fourth child. The 41-year-old comic appeared at an SXSW event in London on Monday with a visible baby bump and subsequently confirmed the news to ...

Character comedian Ted Milligan has been given financial backing for his Edinburgh Fringe show from London’s Seven Dials Playhouse. The news comes as the Best in Class initiative also announces the ...

A new live version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is to open in London later this year.

Lenny Henry, Ross Noble and Amandaland star Lucy Punch have gone diving with sharks for a new ITV reality show. Also taking part in Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters are TV presenter Ade Adepitan, ...

Diane Morgan has admitted she thought she’d never be asked to take part in the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? – after mocking it on screen. ‘I thought I’d blown it after I did a spoof of it in my ...

Dame Penelope Keith is to host a two-hour retrospective about The Good Life to mark 50 years of the classic sitcom. The show ...

ITV has released the trailer for Transaction, the new comedy from stand-up Jordan Gray. She plays a transgender egomaniac causing havoc in the nightshift of the supermarket where she's been hired to ...

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 quiz is number themed. Good luck!

Amy Gledhill tells about the time she had to be rescued from Go Ape in the latest Comedy Central stand-up video. The set comes from the comic's Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show last year, when she ...