Crisis-hit Leicester Comedy Festival has cancelled its outdoor summer festival with less than two weeks’ notice. Lou Sanders, Phil Ellis and Tom Rosenthal were among the acts slated to play the LCF In ...

Tom Holland has revealed that he’s turned down the chance to host Saturday Night Live because of his dyslexia. The Spider-Man star says he’s a fan of the NBC show and has been asked ‘a few times’ to ...

Adam Buxton is making a new podcast for Audible. In Successpod, the comedian attempts to make himself relevant in the age of influencers, looksmaxxing and self-optimisation – while being fairly ...

Harry Enfield is losing his hearing – partly because of his love of cold-water swimming. The comedian takes regular dips in Highgate Ponds near his north London home – but despite the supposed health ...

Julian Clary is joining Celebrity Gogglebox. The comic will be paired with suave actor Nigel Havers for the eighth series of the Channel 4 show which starts on Friday.

A new comedy award aimed specifically at Scottish acts is to be launched at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. The accolade, run by The Stand comedy club, is the first prize of its kind in the festival's ...

Winner of the 2012 Chortle Award for innovation for La Concepta, a conceptual restaurant that popped up at various secret venues around the Edinburgh Fringe the previous year.

Becky Hill has written a diss track about Jack Whitehall, after the comic roasted her at last year’s Brit Awards. The singer’s new album features a track called Daddy’s Range Rover, in reference to ...

The case against the man charged with making a bomb hoax at a Peter Kay gig has been adjourned for a psychiatric report to be drawn up. During a hearing by video-link from prison yesterday, Omar Majed ...

Rob Grant had been planning an animated Red Dwarf series at the time of his death in February. His collaborator Andrew Marshall revealed they had been working on 15-minute episodes following the ...

Comedy writer Dave Cohen is offering a free advice session on how to write better jokes. The comic – who wrote the songs for Horrible Histories – says: ‘I’ll be offering hints and tips about how to ...

Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker’s story of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town has been turned into a stage play that will tour the UK. The show, about a Jack the Ripper-style madman ...