Noah Szto won Melbourne’s best newcomer title with a modest but charming storytelling show performed in a tiny karaoke room away from the main festival venues. What a difference a year makes. Now he’s ...

For his part, he’s often stuck behind his laptop, responsible for firing up the pumping backing tracks and impressive video backdrops. Yet he gets his moment in the spotlight during Don’t Stop ...

The wedding co-ordinator has clearly planned the day with more precision than the D-Day landings, while American guest Jessica is the largest of the personalities, addressing the room like an ...

Steve Coogan has said there will always be more Alan Partridge until the day he drops dead. The comic made his comments on the Heart Evening Show, when host Dev Griffin asked him what question he ...

Sue Perkins is to host Have I Got News For You for the first time in a decade. The comic has not been on the programme since 2015, but will return to the presenter’s chair on May 2. The guest ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week we mark 25 years of the Harry Enfield ...

Helen Lederer is joining the cast of the Fawlty Towers play when it returns to the West End this summer. The comedian and author – best known for her roles in Ab Fab and Bottom – will be playing Mrs ...

The WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards are a great institution and a valuable competition which would benefit from a refreshment in its approach to staging. Its 2025 line-up had its ups and downs, but ...

Nick Mohammed has reportedly signed up to appear on the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors. The comedian. best known for playing kit man turned rival coach Nathan ‘Nate' Shelley on Ted Lasso, is said to be ...

An excursion into Laura Davis’s uniquely fertile brain is a highlight of any comedy festival, and this year is no exception. The comedian’s sweeping state-of-the-world, state-of-themselves monologues ...

Katherine Ryan went too far in gushing about a brand she had been paid to promote when she appeared on live TV, broadcast watchdog Ofcom has found. The comedian waxed lyrical about Gousto meal kit ...

An admirable ambition underpins Oliver Coleman’s work, this time putting the focus on the artifice of performance, envisaging a dystopian future of AI art on a burning planet and, even grimmer, ...