James Acaster has lent his voice to a new video game. The comic plays The Narrator in Perchang World, a physics puzzle game launching on Apple Arcade next month. Although he has appeared in the ...

Steve Coogan has joined the second series of BBC comedy Funboys. The broadcaster has released an image of him in a period costume to promote the forthcoming series. He plays Phillip, a frustrated ...

James Corden will again be sponsoring the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year, alongside fellow comics Rhod Gilbert and Elf Lyons. Organisers say this year’s prize fund will be bigger than the ...

Saturday Night Live founder Lorne Michaels has hailed the UK version of his venerable show as ‘smarter, funnier and more original’ than its American counterpart. The creator of the US comedy ...

Comedians taking part in the Halloween special of Last One Laughing will have to adhere to a new rule. Competitors will not only face eviction for laughing or smiling – but screaming too. And it’s ...

Guy Montgomery enjoys his warm welcome on stage at the Big Four-Oh! – a celebration gala marking 40 years of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It gets him think about the delights of being ...

Here’s Hannah Gadsby talking about doing a theatre workshop in New York – and hating it. She was talking at the Big Four-Oh! – a celebration gala marking 40 years of Melbourne International Comedy ...

Huge Ass Mindset is a stinging slap of defiance against the man responsible for her childhood sexual abuse. Rather being crushed by the distress he caused, she has emerged a powerful purveyor of ...

The ritualistic behaviour of a church service is always ripe for parody, and Andrea Barello offers a clown’s eye view of all the pomp and ceremony involved.

It comes after women working in live comedy told MPs yesterday how they face entrenched sexism, opaque pay practices and widespread harassment, warning that the industry’s informal structure leaves ...

It’s a valid opinion that the Nazi gesture shouldn’t be used in comedy, but it is just that: an opinion. Proper antisemitic comedians, such as France’s Dieudonné, have come up with workaround to ...

Forget all the empowering messages that surround us about personal growth, Jess Fuchs doesn’t believe any of it is possible. She comes across as wilfully shallow, but in a wonderfully scathing way. At ...