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

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!

Nick Mohammed is to guest star in the new series of acclaimed Apple TV+ drama Slow Horses. The comedian and Ted Lasso star will play ambitious politician Zafar Jaffrey, a moderate Muslim and friend of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Alex Horne has staged a Taskmaster challenge for residents of an Oxfordshire care home. The comic said his session at Seccombe Court in the village of Adderbury was ‘probably he most memorable’ of all ...

As Amazon prepares to cast the next series of its game show Last One Laughing, one big name has thrown his hat into the ring. Lee Mack says he would love to participate in the Amazon Prime Video show ...

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 ...

The printed edition of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has been unveiled today. It features 3,352 shows across 265 venues - though more will be added to the online box office as the festival ...

South London’s Banana Cabaret has announced the line-up for their 2025 Balham Comedy Festival. The event, now in its 13th year, features the likes of Rhys James, Shaparak Khorsandi (pictured) and Ria ...

Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Rosco McClelland, Liam Withnail and Stuart McPherson are to release stand-up specials for free on online this June and July.