Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Catherine Bohart returns with a fresh hour of sharp, candid and characteristically honest humour. Borrowing Trouble finds its name from one of her dad’s favourite sayings: a reminder against worrying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking part in the special are TV chef and rapper Big Zuu, former footballer Jill Scott, actress, presenter, and children’s book author Rose Ayling-Ellis, musician Sam Ryder and lexicographer Susie ...