Helen Lederer is joining the cast of the Fawlty Towers play when it returns to the West End this summer. The comedian and author – best known for her roles in Ab Fab and Bottom – will be playing Mrs ...

The WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards are a great institution and a valuable competition which would benefit from a refreshment in its approach to staging. Its 2025 line-up had its ups and downs, but ...

Nick Mohammed has reportedly signed up to appear on the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors. The comedian. best known for playing kit man turned rival coach Nathan ‘Nate' Shelley on Ted Lasso, is said to be ...

An excursion into Laura Davis’s uniquely fertile brain is a highlight of any comedy festival, and this year is no exception. The comedian’s sweeping state-of-the-world, state-of-themselves monologues ...

An admirable ambition underpins Oliver Coleman’s work, this time putting the focus on the artifice of performance, envisaging a dystopian future of AI art on a burning planet and, even grimmer, ...

Dhinawan Baker has won this year's Deadly Funny title for First Nations comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The stand-up – descendant of the Gamillaroi Bigambul tribe in ...

The best songwriters tackle the fundamental struggles of what it means to be human. Among them is Jazz Emu, who has just released this track about an issue that affects us all..

Paul Whitehouse is to play Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the new TV adaption of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, it has been announced. Broadcaster HBO has also revealed that Nick Frost will play ...

Katherine Ryan went too far in gushing about a brand she had been paid to promote when she appeared on live TV, broadcast watchdog Ofcom has found. The comedian waxed lyrical about Gousto meal kit ...

Bridget Christie has joined cast of award-winning the BBC comedy Things You Should Have Done. She plays an ‘unhinged and unprofessional grief counsellor’ called Ruth in the second series of Lucia ...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: The series concludes with Ghosts star Jim Howick, Gloria Hunniford OBE, model Ellie Goldstein and comic Jamali Maddix taking on a retro recipe for ...

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