As an interactive, randomised sketch show where anything could happen it encompasses the energy of the Fringe, and that’s why we want to debut in Edinburgh.’ May has been a the Fringe before with her ...

With regards to self-discovery it’s probably the fact that I’m a real billy-big-bollocks on stage and am incredibly confident. It’s not like in real life I’m a wallflower but I think maybe I used to ...

Here’s Channel 4’s new format A Short Walk To The Pub with Alexander Ubiquitous. It’s a sketch from Michael Spicer’s new online sketch show, Media Studies, which is available here: ...

American comedy talk show institution The ​Late Show with Stephen Colbert is to end in May, the CBS network has unexpectedly announced. Executives said the surprise move was a ‘purely a financial ...

Channel 4 has dropped Bridget Christie ’s comedy The Change, despite the comedian’s plans to end the story with a third series. She said the news came as a ‘huge blow’ – but said she hoped to be able ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up.

A major new documentary about Joan Rivers will tap into hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings. Makers of the feature-length film have been given unprecedented access to the ...

The Lying Game: The comics must each tell an anecdote about the same randomly selected topic. However, while five of them are telling a true story, two of them are lying through their teeth. Their ...

Britain's first female Chancellor was last year told it would cost £8,000 to take out the offending item – and that it was once used by Winston Churchill – so it has remained in place. Treasury ...

Comedian Ali Brice has been named this year’s top bingo comedy caller by London club Dabbers. The stand-up performed as his gameshow enthusiast alter-ego Eric Meat in the competition, and wins a ...

Double, once dubbed by Stewart Lee as 'the Charles Darwin of alternative comedy’, runs a comedy module at the University Of Kent and has written books on the topic including Getting The Joke and Stand ...