By packaging jaw-dropping circus skills with burlesque raunch, David Bates was pivotal in reinventing cabaret when he launched La Clique at the Edinburgh Fringe 20 years ago.

Here’s the trailer for Jack Whitehall’s Christmas special Jack In Time For Christmas. In the partially scripted, partially improvised travelogue the comedian has four days to get home to the UK from ...

Cross – known on TV for Arrested Development, Mr Show and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret – will be playing five days of his The End Of The Beginning Of The End Tour in April.

Formerly performing as Ariadne The Greek Wag, and latterly as The Funny Mummy.

Filming has finally begun on Jordan Gray ’s sitcom Transaction – more than two years after it was first announced. In the six ...

The line-up has been announced for the next Taskmaster’s New Year Treat. Competing for Greg Davies ’s golden eyebrows in the one-off show are former England and Liverpool footballer David James, ...

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

Given all the opportunities the BBC can afford, it’s no surprise that their New Comedy Award attracts the cream of emerging comedians – and the final of this year’s contest, hosted in Birmingham by ...

Belfast is to host the next BBC Comedy Festival, it has been announced today. The event will be a chance for producers, both established and new, to celebrate and explore comedy in the UK, and aims to ...

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? Good, yeah, nice,’ he ...

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

Stevie Martin is booking an Airbnb for a getaway… and as usual she’s having a few problems. Regular collaborator Lola-Rose Maxwell is the voice of the booking platform in this latest video. Martin’s ...