Comedians including Stewart Lee, Mark Steel and Arthur Smith are to perform an updated version of Alexander Pope’s 18th century satire The Dunciad. The poem, first published in 1728, celebrates a ...

John Kearns is joining the Penny Dreadfuls team for a new Sherlock Holmes comedy play – with new songs from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He will appear alongside Humphrey Ker, David Reed and ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. This week's is all about the letter Q. Good luck!

Not Going Out started in 2006 as a flatshare comedy with Megan Dodds as Lee’s landlady. However, she left at the end of ...

Here’s a trailer for Sunlight, Nina Conti’s film about a woman escaping a toxic relationship who ends up on the road in a monkey suit. Her character gets picked up by a man seeking retribution from ...

Sir Lenny Henry is to perform his first stand-up comedy gig in 16 years next week. The comic is to headline the Perth Festival of the Arts on May 30, with what he describes as a ‘comedy lecture’.

Sarah Silverman has admitted she was ‘fucking ignorant’ to don blackface for her American TV show. In a 2007 episode of her Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Show, she blacked up and said: ‘I ...

Dylan Moran is to make his debut as a Shakespearean actor, starring stage opposite Dame Harriet Walter. The comedian is to play Touchstone in a new production of As You Like It, directed by Ralph ...

Chortle can today announced the line-up for our Fast Fringe showcase, offering London-based comedy fans a brilliant sampler of 29 comedy and variety acts heading to the Edinburgh festival this summer.

Filming has just started on Blueberry Inn at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, trade website Screen Daily reports. The movie also stars Sophia Di Martino – known for her comedy roles on Flowers, Friday ...

As usual, Che made Jost crack racist jokes, and in return he was made to look like a misogynist. The segment also included ...

The Please Don’t Destroy sketch group got a first-class holiday flight courtesy of Saturday Night Live guest host Scarlett Johansson last night. However when they found they were heading to troubled ...