But that's all part of the fun and the audience is in on it. They know I'm leaning hard into being a fusty, provincial middle-aged man, harder than I might in day-to-day life. That's part of the game.

In honour of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's arrest Spitting Image has released this carefully crafted ex-royal souvenir... compilation of sketches featuring the creep formerly known as Prince. It all ...

When Zac Lammas suffered a brain injury at 16, doctors gave him less than a one per cent chance of survival. And next week, he will live out a dream when he performs a sketch on the Comedy Store stage ...

They also have some cool programming blocks, with various weekends or venues being taken over by groups like Liebenspiel or the Weirdos, allowing them to run a series of tonally sympathetic solo shows ...

One of the acts will be chosen as one of our official Hotshots for 2026, with the Fringe registration free paid and a packaged of promotional help'. Further gigs – with line-ups to be announced – are ...

Now comedians are to take over the space for a night of comedy about engineering . Hosted by science communicator Steve Cross, the line-up of the March 4 gig features Shiv Kapila, Shalaka Kurup, ...

Mark Heap, who played the reclusive husband whose death was faked by French’s character Debbie to claim the life insurance, returns for a second series, as does Craig Roberts as their son Harry and ...

Nigel Planer, who has been in the series since its start in 1981, revealed details of the plot to The Times diary column today. He said the idea was that the trio were all Russians who had been ...

Janine Harouni missed out on the $500,000 top prize on Netflix talent show Star Search last night. The comedian, from New York’s Staten Island but now based in London, has made the final of the glitzy ...

We have only just begun to tap into the endless possibilities of artificial reality. Here one visionary explains just what mind-blowing potential the technology could unleash. The in-depth report has ...

Amazon has released the trailer of the second series of its Australian comedy-crime series Deadloch.

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all about Pixar movies. Good luck!