Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of A Man On The Inside. Ted Danson returns as Charles, and – having investigated thefts in a retirement home in series one – now goes undercover on ...

Carl Donnelly is to take on his social media advent calendar challenge again this year: drinking his way through 24 mystery miniatures All the booze – which he must drink every morning in December – ...

New Match Of The Day presenter Gabby Logan is to host Have I Got News For You for the first time. She will be fronting the episode that goes out on Friday November 21, which will also mark Nish Kumar ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Today's questions are themed around the letter J. Good ...

Madeleine Brettingham won the Beat The Frog World Series contest for new stand-ups at Manchester's Frog and Bucket comedy club last night. It follows her success in taking the So You Think You’re ...

Jason Manford is to return to the stage in the comedy musical Something Rotten! in Manchester next summer.

Johnny Vegas has been announced as the November featured artist for Draw!, a nationwide drawing project presented by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. Backed by Bradford-born artist David Hockney, the ...

Greg Davies and Alex Horne are set to take Taskmaster on the road. Avalon, the producers of the Channel 4 show and a major player in the world of live comedy promotion, are looking to put together a ...

Jimmy Carr appeared on Jimmy Fallon's US chat show last night to talk about his weird laugh. He also told his mum, who was narcoleptic, had a weird laugh – and how trying to make her crack up might ...

Sara Pascoe’s debut novel has won a literary prize handed out in honour of the late Jilly Cooper. The comedian's book Weirdo scooped a new accolade named in honour of the Rivals and Riders author – ...

Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of Chris McCausland 's panel show You Heard It Here First. In the show, the comic and Strictly winner explores what it’s like to live in an audio-only world, ...

Filming has begun on Josh Pugh ’s Channel 4 sitcom. Stepping Up. The comedian writes and stars in the six-part series, described as an ‘original take on the modern family dynamic’. He pays a stepdad, ...