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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

David Elms started comedy in improv troupe The Improverts at Edinburgh University, and he was named Edinburgh University Stand Up of the Year 2011. In 2012 he reached the final of the Chortle Student ...

It was never going to trump the Gavin and Stacey finale , but the return of Outnumbered after eight years was still a low-key pleasure. Even if that’s an odd adjective to use for a show in which ...

Charlie Brooker says he has considered making a Black Mirror / Philomena Cunk crossover. The creator of both shows admitted he had the idea of an episode in which the dimwitted talking head, as played ...

It was bound to happen eventually…. Milton Jones has revealed that a punter went to see his stand-up show Ha!Milton expecting something else entirely. The comic says that at a recent gig he was ...