RICHARD OSMAN HOUSE OF GAMES:, Adam Buxton is on the panel this week with Black Ops star Hammed Animashaun, television and radio presenter Lisa Snowdon and sketch comedian Lorna Watson – best known ...

OXFORD: In his tour, Staring At The Sun Simon Evans is ‘squinting at an uncertain future, revisiting the blue remembered hills of his youth and trying to stay human as the world around him gets ...

Leicester Square Theatre’s New Comedian Of The Year whittled down more than 300 acts across 40 heats to just 14 hopefuls for yesterday's final, competing for a title previously held by acts such as ...

Adolescence star Erin Doherty has revealed she was once disciplined by Romesh Ranganthan when he was still a teacher. The 33-year-old – who played child psychologist Briony Ariston in the Netflix hit ...

Becoming Victoria Wood is an affectionate documentary that gives full context to the sexism and body-shaming – often internalised – that the comedian overcame on her path to becoming a bona fide ...

Netflix has appointed its first UK head of comedy – signalling a bigger commitment to the genre. Liz Lewin – a former Sky and Channel 4 commissioner who was executive producer on Lisa McGee’s Derry ...

American comic John Mulaney has called off his shows in Minneapolis this weekend after ICE agents killed Renee Nicole Good in the city. The stand-up said it ‘didn’t sit right’ to do the shows – citing ...

Russell Brand made £4million in the year multiple women made rape and sexual assault claims against him, Chortle can reveal.

Forty years on from its original production, and retaining the milieu of 1985, Woman In Mind feels like a slightly stylised look at mental collapse rather than driven by first-hand experience, but ...

The official trailer has been released today for Mother’s Pride, the forthcoming British comedy-drama from the team behind Finding Your Feet and Fisherman’s Friends. Directed by Nick Moorcroft, the ...

The 20-minute special is titled The Mandy Who Knew Too Much and has the synopsis: ‘Mandy rarely dabbles in global diplomacy, especially over Christmas when it's so cold out and there's good telly on, ...

Here's a trailer for a documentary about comedian Dave Thompson's experience of playing Tinky Winky in The Teletubbies. The feature-length film was shot, produced and directed by fellow comedian Joe ...