The Aberdeen comedy festival has officially launched its 2026 line-up, including some of the biggest names in British and Irish stand-up. Russell Howard opens the festival on Sept ...

Matt Hollins has won the Not So New Comedian Of The Year competition run by London's Museum Of Comedy. The Leicester-based stand-up said it was the first prize he'd won in a comedy career spanning ...

Amusing as it would be to leave this page entirely blank, instead we thought we’d let Russell Brand’s words speak for themselves. The following are quotes from the former comedian’s new book – How to ...

With bonkers gags crammed tightly into each quirky episode, Make That Movie has all the signs of being ‘cult success’, closer in ethos to Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson than it ...

The stars of Smoggie Queens have been captured in a mural that was officially unveiled in Middlesbrough town centre yesterday. The 5m by 5m artwork, showing the characters in front of the landmark ...

Smoggie Queens star Elijah Young is making a BBC comedy short set in a sandwich shop on Newcastle's Bigg Market. The actor will film the ten-minute episode of Sarnies – which he also wrote – next ...

Ted Danson and Elizabeth Banks are to star as father and daughter in a new Apple TV comedy. In the as-yet-untitled project, Banks’s character is forced into an unlikely alliance with the ‘perpetually ...

A Glasgow outdoor comedy festival is to stage a second event this summer following strong demand for the first. Laugh In The Park, which takes place at the bandstand in Queens Park in the city's ...

Nearly a decade after her death at just 52, Caroline Aherne’s outsize talent receives glowing tribute in this unapologetic hagiography from BBC radio presenter and poet David Scott. Scrupulous in his ...

Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe has become the UK’s most listened-to comedy podcast. Analysis by Edison Research puts the show at No13 in the top shows in the first quarter of 2026 ...

Shows from Darren Harriott, Mary Bourke and Adrian Edmondson were among the gold winners at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. The Skewer, Radio 4’s satirical audio mash-up programme, was named best ...

And the title of I Fell In Love With My Sleep Paralysis Demon, directed by Matthew J. Thompson, rather gives away who that bloke might be. The film won the audience award at Funny Shorts 2026 – ...