The French comic has been a significant rising star on the UK circuit for a few years now, but 2024 represented an evolution of her style. Of All People is a more honest, affecting show than ever ...

Scottish comedian Rachel Jackson was arrested at Nashville Airport after a sweary showdown with police, it has been revealed today. Footage of the 37-year-old’s altercation with police officers in ...

Sir Stephen, 67, has long links to the King – who once spent New Year’s Eve at the Blackadder actor’s Norfolk home when he was still married to Diana. London mayor Sadiq Khan and football manager ...

Test your comedy knowledge of 2024 with today's edition of our Tuesday trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

In May, it was revealed that Andy Zaltzman, Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones would be trying to impress Greg Davies at challenges set by show creator Alex Horne. It’s the first of ...

London’s West End Comedy Club has closed after three and a half years. The venue had its final show on December 19, as its venue, the Covent Garden Social Club, has shut down as the landlord plans to ...

Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

There’s no narrative or real theme to his somewhat disjointed ideas, but an unexpectedly melancholy makes itself known in the first half, as the bucolic countryside image projected as his backdrop ...

Nudity usually ensures memorability, and Garry Starr – the alter-ego of Aussie clown Damien Warren-Smith – performed his entire show in the buff, save for save for a tailcoat, flippers and Elizabethan ...

Shazia Mirza is writing her memoirs about her life before becoming aomedian. The stand-up grew up in strictly religious family in Birmingham and was a science teacher in a ‘really rough’ comprehensive ...

While the weary but loving chemistry between Dennis and Skinner – who became a real-life couple since the last Christmas special – is very appealing, something is undoubtedly missing from the show now ...

Here’s Larry Dean recalling his first ever gig – and how it didn’t go well. The comic recalls: ‘I tried to be as offensive as ...