Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: ...

MANCHESTER: The ongoing Creatures Comedy Festival has declared today 'Northern Takeover Day' with acts front the region including Rob Auton, Jack Carroll and working-class acts from Best In Class, ...

As an interactive, randomised sketch show where anything could happen it encompasses the energy of the Fringe, and that’s why we want to debut in Edinburgh.’ May has been a the Fringe before with her ...

Here’s Channel 4’s new format A Short Walk To The Pub with Alexander Ubiquitous. It’s a sketch from Michael Spicer’s new online sketch show, Media Studies, which is available here: ...

With regards to self-discovery it’s probably the fact that I’m a real billy-big-bollocks on stage and am incredibly confident. It’s not like in real life I’m a wallflower but I think maybe I used to ...

American comedy talk show institution The ​Late Show with Stephen Colbert is to end in May, the CBS network has unexpectedly announced. Executives said the surprise move was a ‘purely a financial ...

The BBC’s TV comedy budget fell seven per cent last year, its new annual report reveals. Accounts show that spending on the genre fell from £241million in the year 2023/24 to £224million last year.

Channel 4 has dropped Bridget Christie ’s comedy The Change, despite the comedian’s plans to end the story with a third series. She said the news came as a ‘huge blow’ – but said she hoped to be able ...

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 questions all have some link to Harry ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up.

The Lying Game: The comics must each tell an anecdote about the same randomly selected topic. However, while five of them are telling a true story, two of them are lying through their teeth. Their ...