A stalwart at the likes of Malcolm Hardee's Tunnel Club in the 1980s, Anthony Irvine’s act involved trying to melt large blocks of ice by ridiculous means, while pontificating to the audience, ...

With a title borrowed from the Mumsnet message board, the comedy thriller is written by and starring real-life best friends Selin Hizli and Daisy May Cooper and co-stars Dustin Demri-Burns and Lenny ...

Sky has announced four new series of digital shorts featuring comedians Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah and Kyrah Gray, plus internet personality Stevo The Madman. The programmes – which will all air on Sky ...

Michael Spicer has made a second series of his Radio 4 sketch show No Room. The commission follows an 11-part series – including an election special – which aired last year.

Glasgow-based comedian Marc Jennings is helping Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn compile the country’s funniest stories for a new ...

Comedy and science fiction are notoriously difficult genres to combine. And yet Time Travel Is Dangerous pulls it off, with this modestly produced film a delightful British curio that extracts maximum ...

London’s Seven Dials Playhouse is hoping to set up a sketch comedy collective along the likes of The Groundlings. The original was set up as an improv group in Los Angeles in 1974 and helped launch ...

Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis are taking their podcast The Wolf and Owl on tour – leading a raft of live comedy shows going on sale today. The pair will perform ten nights this autumn, starting at ...

Ricky Gervais has had to abandon his plans to build a £5 million mansion on the banks of the Thames over concerns about flooding. The comedian wanted to build a four-bedroom £5 million neo-classical ...

Ian Smith will make his debut on Have I Got News For You next month. The comic will appear on the second episode of the 70th series, which will air on April 17. He has appeared 20 times on The News ...

The news comes just days after she scooped three Royal Television Society awards for the same show. Nominated alongside her are Kate O’Flynn for Everyone Else Burns, Lolly Adefope for The Franchise, ...

» Watch Ken Dodd: A Legacy Of Happiness on iPlayer. Also available is Dodd’s in-depth 1996 Face-To-Face interview with Jeremy ...