Saturday Night Live UK will return for a second series, Sky has announced. The second run will be expanded to 12 episodes – up from the eight in the current run – and will air between between autumn ...

Eugene Mirman has released his first stand-up special in a decade for free on YouTube.

Russell Brand has settled his legal dispute over his failure to write two self-help books. Publisher Pan Macmillan had sued the ex-comedian for around £220,000 to recover the advance they had paid ...

Claire Nielson, who played the glamorous American Mrs Hamilton in Fawlty Towers, has died at the age of 89. In the third episode of the second series of the sitcom, her character arrives at the ...

Peter Kay has rescheduled his Birmingham show that was evacuated because of a bomb scare on Friday. He will be back at the Utilita Arena with his Better Late Than Never show on Saturday July 25. All ...

The BBC has released the first photographs from Ann Droid, a new six-part comedy series written by Diane Morgan and Sarah Kendall. Morgan, best known for her roles in Motherland and the Philomena Cunk ...

Its aims are to increase the comedy industry’s knowledge of the existing Arts Council grants programme and help potential applicants better understand the process – not to discuss changes to how the ...

Items include the gown designed by Yashana Malhotra which he wore to the Baftas in 2024 dressed as Queen Elizabeth I, below, a pair of jeans covered with floral embroidery by Le Rêve Nazam, and an ...

Julia Knight has spent a couple of years touring the tribute act/one-woman play I Am Not Victoria Wood , but without the late, great comedian’s genius to depend upon, the limits of her own, far more ...

Ruth Jones has revealed she has been talking to Julia Davis about reviving the black comedy Nighty Night. The Gavin & Stacey co-creator played Linda, the dim-witted assistant to Davis’ cruel and ...

Eloise Heath has been named West End New Act of the Year 2026. She won a week’s worth of Edinburgh Fringe accommodation, £150 and some spots on pro bills. However, as she had already sorted her Fringe ...

Lucy Porter is to host a new history-based quiz on Radio 4. Déjà News – one in a season of quiz-show pilots – will use the BBC’s vast news archive to a test of contestants’ abilities to identify ...