Elaine C Smith may sit among Scottish comedy royalty but she’s forever in danger of being upstaged by young screen newcomer Harper Blue Hamilton in the new BBC comedy short Govan Fair Queen.

My favourite comedy open-mic, the Loon Under Laughter, is only two minutes from a train station, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on a Friday ...

Edinburgh Fringe venue Gilded Balloon has launched its Postcode Pals scheme for a second year, offering local residents discounted festival tickets.

My favourite bit is when I talk about the medical stuff. It’s not a big sob story, it’s how I dealt with it – finding the humour in the middle of all the worry. I’m not mocking anyone, I just talk ...

Filmed in one shot, the promo for the song Porcelain shows the comic enjoying a sausage breakfast, blissfully unaware of an argument unfolding behind him. Bayler plays the woman involved in the row, ...

Could Superman afford the best lawyers money could buy? Probably not on a newspaper reporter's salary. That's why he was appointed a public defender, at least in the mind of comedian Graham Techler.

He is surely one of the reasons the first series of LOL: Last One Laughing was such a success. Now reigning champion Bob Mortimer is set to return for the second season to defend his crown. Trade ...

Atalla revealed: ‘Chris, who I shared a bedroom with, died of it, and by the time I was about 13 or 14, I think I'd been to like seven or eight funerals of kids that were at my school. So that was ...

SHARK! CELEBRITY INFESTED WATERS: Ross Noble and Lenny Henry are among the famous names going diving with man-eating sharks on …and on the 50th anniversary of Jaws, too, Lucy Punch, Helen George, ...

CAMBRIDGE: The Comedy Garden erects its marquee in Parker's Piece, with some of the biggest names in stand-up appearing under its canvas. They include Frankie Boyle, Russell Kane, Nish Kumar, Fern ...

Fearless defender of free speech Donald Trump wants to revoke the citizenship of comedian Rosie O'Donnell because she said mean things about him.

A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail one of Britain’s most successful comedians. It has been reported that the 35-year-old suspect, tried to extort money from the star, who cannot ...