The line-up for this year’s Taskmaster’s New Year Treat has been announced, after the closely-fought 20 th series drew to a close. Taking part in the special are TV chef and rapper Big Zuu, former ...

A new comedy award is to be handed out in honour of Barry Cryer - with Armando Iannucci its first recipient. The Golden Baz award is to be handed out at next year’s Slapstick Festival in Bristol.

The comic was performing at the prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Canada, earlier this year at the New Faces showcase, but it has just been released on YouTube.

Kudos, too, to opening act Eleanor Tiernan, who set the mood with a hilarious set ranging from insightful cross-generational teasing to her sluggish sex life – and closing on a gag about the fragility ...

Frank Foucault is the guest – or client – on the second episode of Open Up! with Jordan Brookes. The video series takes the form of therapy sessions with Brookes taking the role of the mental health ...

He is, as is often the way over in the US, a performer of many parts. Stand-up, podcaster, actor, voiceover artist, he is, I think pound-for-pound the funniest person in the world.

Denise Welch, Sophia Di Martino and Lucia Keskin have joined the cast of Josh Pugh ’s new Channel 4 comedy Stepping Up. Chortle revealed last week that filming had started on the six-part comedy ...

As Boaby the barman in Still Game, Gavin Mitchell is known for his dodgy mullet. But when Mitchell struck up a friendship with Robin Williams when they starred together in Bill Forsyth's 1994 film ...

Saturday Night Live UK will be produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio UK and Broadway Video. Shanna Baynard will serve as executive in charge of production, Andy Smith is the lead ...

Katherine Ryan has launched a Christmas podcast. The show – available only to Audible members – features her husband Bobby Kootstra and 16-year-old daughter Violet and is described as ‘part seasonal ...

Kill Tony regular William Montgomery has been booed off stage after making a series of dated bad-taste jokes. The comic – who holds the record for the most one-minute performances on the podcast show ...

ITV has released a trailer for the third series of Alan Carr’s autobiographical sitcom Changing Ends. The broadcaster joked ‘don't worry Alan, we'll even take a traitor back’ as they welcomed his ...