Eton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 Chortle Awards and for best show ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Samira Banks has signed up to the Blue Book comedy agency. The comic won So You Think You’re Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, after just six months of performing stand up. She has performed as ...

Daisy May Cooper is in the cast of the new Astérix & Obélix animated series, it has been announced. The Am I Being Unreasonable star plays Impedimenta, the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, in ...

The thing you can’t actually see as a viewer, and you can't feel to the full extent, is when you go out to that room and someone says, ‘Good evening everyone,’ or a comedian comes out and makes a joke ...

Here are the first images from inside the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow, which opens on Friday with a run of Natalie Palamides ’ show Weer. The 960-seat venue has been restored from the former 1930s ...

Chris McCasuland is to make a BBC Two documentary on how technology has been life-changing for him, and what the future holds. The hour-long programme is titled Chris Mccausland: Seeing Into the ...

MPs are hearing from comics Matt Forde and Kate Cheka this morning as a Parliamentary committee looks at the state of the UK comedy sector.

Romesh Ranganthan has told how he secretly cried in the toilets during his first job as a beancounter when he became overwhelmed at how sad he thought his life had become.

Toomey mentioned the voluntary arena levy in music, where £1 from each ticket sold for huge gigs goes to the grassroots scene – but in comedy no such trickle-down levy is in place. Labour MP James ...

MPs have been hearing from comics and industry figures this morning as a Parliamentary committee looks at the state of the UK comedy sector. They were giving evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport ...