Johnny Vegas is reviving Ideal – as a stage show. The comic will be reprising his role as small-scale weed dealer Moz in a 20th anniversary production at the Lowry, Salford next year.

Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

'An AI Tommy Tiernan would be like a perfectly-cooked steak… made entirely of tofu. Technically, it *might* look the part, but it’ll lack that essential… *je ne sais quoi*. That primal scream of the ...

He was 15 minutes into his comedy show Undoctored at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday when an audience member shouted: ‘Medic!' And luckily there were plenty in the room, as Kay tends to attract a ...

Here’s the first look at what the cast of Outnumbered look like now – eight years after their last outing and 17 years after ...

Piff the Magic Dragon’s canine companion Mr Piffles has died just shy of his 17th birthday. The Flamingo in Las Vegas, where ...

Never seen before images from the personal archive of the late Terry Jones are to be exhibited in his Colwyn Bay birthplace. News of the show comes as a crowdfunder to erect a statue of the Monty ...

Paul Hilleard has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award. He was crowned at a final at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham that was broadcast on BBC One tonight. ‘Sound, innit? Nice,’ he said after ...

Timothy West has died at the age of 90 after a long career spanning great classic dramas to countless comedy roles.

Harriet Kemsley has taken over as host of the podcast Desert Island Dicks. In a reversal of the Radio 4 format, the show asks its guests to choose the people and things they’d least like to be ...

Sophie Willan has signed a first-look deal with Expectation, the production company behind her hit BBC sitcom Alma’s Not Normal. It will mean the programme-makers have the first refusal on both ...

Like Christmas, it seems like preparation for Edinburgh Fringe gets earlier each year. And comic Will Mars has accelerated that process even more this time around – by announcing the first show of ...