Chloe Reynolds from Staffordshire has won this year’s Leicester Comedian of the Year competition. On taking the title, she said: ‘So far I’ve had a mental breakdown and I’ve also worried about getting ...

WOULD I LIE TO YOU?: Rob Brydon and team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell are joined by guests Holly Willoughby, Montell Douglas, David Morrissey and John Kearns, making his debut. BBC1, 8:30pm.

LEICESTER: Comedian and drag king Kathy Maniura starts a tour of her show, The Cycling Man, on the last day of the Leicester Comedy Festival. Her alter ego is middle-aged, newly single, a loyal ...

Rosie Jones has been nominated for two Scope Awards – designed to celebrate those who are working to end disability inequality. The comic is up for celebrity role model and for best media moment for ...

Kenneth Williams would have been 100 years old this weekend, had he not died of an overdose in April 1988. And in tribute, Robin Ince reads a tribute to the comedian – who he briefly encountered when ...

Two of the stars of The Young Ones are to headline this year's Rik Mayall Comedy Festival in Droitwich Spa, the Worcestershire town where the comedian grew up. Alexei Sayle will appear in an 'in ...

But that's all part of the fun and the audience is in on it. They know I'm leaning hard into being a fusty, provincial middle-aged man, harder than I might in day-to-day life. That's part of the game.

Alan Carr has reportedly snapped up a Scottish castle very similar to the one where he filmed Traitors. The comedian paid £3.25million for Ayton Castle in the Borders, which he will now convert into a ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all about Pixar movies. Good luck!

When Zac Lammas suffered a brain injury at 16, doctors gave him less than a one per cent chance of survival. And next week, he will live out a dream when he performs a sketch on the Comedy Store stage ...

In honour of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's arrest Spitting Image has released this carefully crafted ex-royal souvenir... compilation of sketches featuring the creep formerly known as Prince. It all ...

Janine Harouni missed out on the $500,000 top prize on Netflix talent show Star Search last night. The comedian, from New York’s Staten Island but now based in London, has made the final of the glitzy ...