Rosco McClelland has won this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award. The news was announced by the Big Yin himself via a video message played at the last-day gala of the Glasgow ...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: Stand-up Phil Wang, Alma's Not Normal creator Sophie Willan and Black Ops star Gbemisola Ikumelo line up against presenter Kate Garraway, putting ...

He said: ‘Hear me out — Paddington’s a toxic bitch. He is an illegal immigrant, freeloading off a nice, gullible white family. His sticky little marmalade paws are just waiting to rip open that trench ...

LONDON: New Zealand's mime king, Trygve Wakenshaw, brings what was his first live show in seven years to the Soho Theatre for a week. When it debuted at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, it earned the ...

Anna Rae George has been selected as the last finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award following a public vote.

Boarders star Josh Tedeku won the breakthrough award ahead of De Swarte and Sherwood actor Bethany Asher, with judges ...

Michael Spicer has made a second series of his Radio 4 sketch show No Room. The commission follows an 11-part series – including an election special – which aired last year.

James Acaster has told how he took up comedy as part of a ‘bucket list’ after he was in a serious car smash. In his memoirs, Classic Scrapes, the comic previously wrote about having a ‘midlife crisis’ ...

Jack Whitehall has had a pretty good comedy career – but with no help from his godfather, Nigel Havers. The actor has confessed that he was hopeless at encouraging the young comic to pursue his dreams ...

» Watch Ken Dodd: A Legacy Of Happiness on iPlayer. Also available is Dodd’s in-depth 1996 Face-To-Face interview with Jeremy ...

The BBC has ordered a second series of Smoggie Queens. The sitcom – which around 600,000 viewers per episode when it aired ...