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!

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 ...

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

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’.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Kerry Godliman, trained at the Rose Bruford College and has since combined careers as an actress and a stand-up, after making the final of the 2003 in Babycham Funny Women competition. She co-stars in ...

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 ...