She said: ‘I have watched too many TV shows that have one disabled person, and you can tell that the writer or creator has gone, "Oh, we’ll write one disabled character. We will give all the disabled ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. This week's theme: water. Good luck!

GB News has officially axed Headliners, its late-night newspaper round-up fronted by comedians. A number of the comics who regularly appear on the daily programme have confirmed that it has been ...

Hugh Dennis is to appear on The Archers, Chortle can reveal. The comedian is playing Father Crispin, a one-off character who appears in the long-running Radio 4 soap opera tonight and tomorrow.

A raft of Scottish comics are holding fundraising gigs this month to raise money to bring four Palestinian comedians to the Fringe. Alaa Shehada from Jenin, Diana Sweity from Hebron, Hanna Shammas ...

Two Idiots And A Genius covers the time married couple Mary and Tim Fowler started writing satirical gags for the impressionist in 2012 – part-way through the Cameron-Clegg Coalition – to Rishi ...

Lenny Henry, Sue Perkins and This is Going to Hurt’s Ambika Mod are to star in a West End transfer of a touching comedy play that first gathered acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe 11 years ago.

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special. A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins’s work contributed to ‘the spread of ...

Adam and Joe will be on Virgin Radio from 10am to 1pm on Sunday. Love You, Byeee, a follow-up to Buxton’s Ramble Book, is published by Mudlark, priced £22. It is available from Amazon at £18.73 – or ...

LONDON: Craig Ferguson - the comic who launched his career as Bing Hitler in Scotland before going on to be a hit late-nigth TV host in the States – is back in the UK, and back doing stand-up. He's at ...

CHURCHILL'S BUST: When Donald Trump puts the bust of Churchill back in The Oval Office, after several years absence, Winston becomes increasingly disturbed at what he is witnessing. Jon Culshaw and ...

Dame Penelope Keith is to host a two-hour retrospective about The Good Life to mark 50 years of the classic sitcom. The show ...