Every episode of Spitting Image has been pulled from YouTube as the owners of the Paddington rights step up their legal action. Studio Canal is in dispute with programme-makers Avalon over their ...

The BBC has released a rare 1969 documentary in which Marty Feldman examines the nature of comedy. Now available on YouTube, the 42-minute film features interviews with fellow comics such as Eric ...

The session took place as part of the New York Comedy Festival, where it was billed as ‘the hottest comedy show in the world’. A second gig is set for the Othership spa in the city’s Flatiron district ...

Romesh Ranganathan has announced a new tour – but not until 2027. The comic will be hitting the road with a show called Romesh Ranganathan Will Change Your Life.

The line-up for this year’s Taskmaster’s New Year Treat has been announced, after the closely-fought 20 th series drew to a close. Taking part in the special are TV chef and rapper Big Zuu, former ...

Saturday Night Live UK will be produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio UK and Broadway Video. Shanna Baynard will serve as executive in charge of production, Andy Smith is the lead ...

A new comedy award is to be handed out in honour of Barry Cryer - with Armando Iannucci its first recipient. The Golden Baz award is to be handed out at next year’s Slapstick Festival in Bristol.

The comic was performing at the prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Canada, earlier this year at the New Faces showcase, but it has just been released on YouTube.

Kudos, too, to opening act Eleanor Tiernan, who set the mood with a hilarious set ranging from insightful cross-generational teasing to her sluggish sex life – and closing on a gag about the fragility ...

Frank Foucault is the guest – or client – on the second episode of Open Up! with Jordan Brookes. The video series takes the form of therapy sessions with Brookes taking the role of the mental health ...

Denise Welch, Sophia Di Martino and Lucia Keskin have joined the cast of Josh Pugh ’s new Channel 4 comedy Stepping Up. Chortle revealed last week that filming had started on the six-part comedy ...

He is, as is often the way over in the US, a performer of many parts. Stand-up, podcaster, actor, voiceover artist, he is, I think pound-for-pound the funniest person in the world.