Alex Mitchell has won the competition for the best joke at the Nottingham Comedy Festival. The former Britain’s Got Talent contestant won for the line: ‘I did my driving test in Luton. My driving ...

Here’s Dan Tiernan’s set at the prestigious New Faces Of Comedy showcase at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival. He talks about his dyspraxia in the six-minute routine, which the festival ...

Meet James Jiverson, a Gen Z visionary, educator and self-proclaimed parenting expert. His night school, Jim Jamz School 4 Dadz, promises to help divorced fathers reconnect with their kids through the ...

She’s already won a raft of new act titles – including the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny at the Edinburgh Fringe – but Madeleine Brettingham again showed what a promising talent she is by ...

Comics Eddie Kadi and Shazia Mirza are to take part in a Celebrity version of The Apprentice this Christmas. They are among the 12 famous names taking part in a two-part special for Children In Need ...

April Fool’s Day next year is to be branded as Live Comedy Day as a way to celebrated the sector and those working within it.

Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness is heading back to the UK, bringing an unforgettable night of sparkling humour, heartfelt honesty and fierce fun to stages across the country. Recently, Jonathan has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...