In May, it was revealed that Andy Zaltzman, Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones would be trying to impress Greg Davies at challenges set by show creator Alex Horne. It’s the first of ...

London’s West End Comedy Club has closed after three and a half years. The venue had its final show on December 19, as its venue, the Covent Garden Social Club, has shut down as the landlord plans to ...

Nudity usually ensures memorability, and Garry Starr – the alter-ego of Aussie clown Damien Warren-Smith – performed his entire show in the buff, save for save for a tailcoat, flippers and Elizabethan ...

There’s no narrative or real theme to his somewhat disjointed ideas, but an unexpectedly melancholy makes itself known in the first half, as the bucolic countryside image projected as his backdrop ...

Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

Shazia Mirza is writing her memoirs about her life before becoming aomedian. The stand-up grew up in strictly religious family in Birmingham and was a science teacher in a ‘really rough’ comprehensive ...

While the weary but loving chemistry between Dennis and Skinner – who became a real-life couple since the last Christmas special – is very appealing, something is undoubtedly missing from the show now ...

Here’s Larry Dean recalling his first ever gig – and how it didn’t go well. The comic recalls: ‘I tried to be as offensive as ...

The Gavin and Stacey finale has - unsurprisingly – won the Christmas Day ratings battle, attracting an average of 12.3 million viewers, It was the largest Christmas Day audience in 14 years. Overnight ...

Charlie Brooker says he has considered making a Black Mirror / Philomena Cunk crossover. The creator of both shows admitted he had the idea of an episode in which the dimwitted talking head, as played ...

An unusual snippet of comedy trivia comes via the Popbitch gossip newsletter today. The celebrity website used its Boxing Day edition to look back at the notable deaths of 2024, including Camila ...