Sky is bringing NBC’s legendary late-night comedy showcase, Saturday Night Live, to the UK and Ireland in 2026. A star-studded lineup of hosts will take to the stage to declare, "Live from London, ...

As a mash-up of over-the-top sketch comedy, documentary narrative and verbatim theatre, even creators Zach Ruane and Alexei Toliopoulos acknowledge that Refused Classification is a tough sell. That ...

But what sets Monkeys Everywhere apart is a theatrical ambition beyond silly diversion. The modern-day clown is upfront about the metaphor at the heart of the show, and even if that sails above the ...

You could read Emma Holland’s Don’t Touch My Trinkets as a thoughtful treatise about ethics and exploitation in art, as encapsulated by a landmark court case involving New York street photographer ...

Former newsreader Angela Rippon is to guest host Have I Got News For You for the first time. The 80-year-old broadcaster, who will take the chair on April 25, said: ‘It’s been a few years since I said ...

Ricky Gervais’s vodka company is launching a stand-up competition with a £5,000 cash prize. The winner of the Dutch Barn Vodka Spirit of Comedy competition will also be invited to open for Gervais ...

The BBC is set to renew Here We Go for a fourth series, it has reported. According to The Sun’s TV Biz column, contacts are ‘set to be signed’ with the ensemble cast of Tom Basden ’s family ...

He says that on stage, ’I was just doing what I've always done, which is to try to make jokes about things that scare me, but in a way that doesn't necessarily undermine the real emotions that are at ...

Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones is making a TV tribute to Merthyr Tydfil with fellow comedy actor Steve Speirs. Speirs – star of the Welsh sitcom The Tuckers and known for playing Richard Burbage in ...

One voice that does have purpose, however, is that of her inner critic, a deep-toned messenger of doom (thanks to a voice modifier) that preys on her insecurities, comments on how the gig’s going, and ...

Despite such misgivings in this room, there is a huge market for Witcombe’s style of comedy. His festival blurb brackets him with the likes of ofter offence-baiting male stand-ups like Ricky Gervais, ...

Rik Mayall was so annoyed at being left out of Band Aid that he wrote a letter of complaint to Bob Geldof. And here’s Benedict Cumberbatch reading the correspondence, in which the comic explained how ...