Ricky Gervais will be honoured with the 2,813th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday 30th May. Joining journalist ...

New stand-up show Ian Stone Is Looking For The Wow will tour between January and June 2026. The comedian's promoters say: " ...

When Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England's fair shore bringing luxuries such as the potato, the Queen falls in love with the explorers' dream. Edmund merely falls in love with the idea of fame, and ...

The University of York has launched a fundraising campaign to secure the archive of comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan ...

Frank Skinner, Harry Hill, Amy Gledhill, Harriet Kemsley and This Paranormal Life were amongst the winners at the inaugural ...

Pushers, a sitcom starring Rosie Jones as a drug dealer, launches on Channel 4 in June. The show, written by Jones and Peter Fellows, started life as a Comedy Blaps pilot in 2022 titled Disability ...

We're excited to have a new themed-quiz from Kate Emmett. This one is based around European languages appearing in British comedy. 1. Which sitcom character peppered his speech with incorrectly used ...

Channel 4 has commissioned Schooled, a six-part comedy series based on writer Delia-René Donaldson's real experiences in pastoral care at a London school. The network explains: "Schooled is a comedic ...

You Rang, M'Lord?, the hit upstairs-downstairs television comedy from David Croft and Jimmy Perry, is to be followed up with a sequel, more than 30 years after it ended. Original series director Roy ...

A new comedy night is launching in Newcastle Upon Tyne in July. Digital Laughs will take place in Digital, the nightclub on Times Square. The club promises "top names from the comedy circuit" to ...

Amazon has confirmed it has ordered a second series of Last One Laughing UK, following the success of the launch series. Jimmy Carr will return for six more half-hour episodes of the format, which ...

Sitcom writer Tim Reid talks below about the benefits of comedy writing courses and building up a constant source of potential material. Tell us what you do in your job. I'm a comedy writer, podcaster ...