Former newsreader Angela Rippon is to guest host Have I Got News For You for the first time. The 80-year-old broadcaster, who will take the chair on April 25, said: ‘It’s been a few years since I said ...

Ricky Gervais’s vodka company is launching a stand-up competition with a £5,000 cash prize. The winner of the Dutch Barn Vodka Spirit of Comedy competition will also be invited to open for Gervais ...

The BBC is set to renew Here We Go for a fourth series, it has reported. According to The Sun’s TV Biz column, contacts are ‘set to be signed’ with the ensemble cast of Tom Basden ’s family ...

One voice that does have purpose, however, is that of her inner critic, a deep-toned messenger of doom (thanks to a voice modifier) that preys on her insecurities, comments on how the gig’s going, and ...

Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones is making a TV tribute to Merthyr Tydfil with fellow comedy actor Steve Speirs. Speirs – star of the Welsh sitcom The Tuckers and known for playing Richard Burbage in ...

Despite such misgivings in this room, there is a huge market for Witcombe’s style of comedy. His festival blurb brackets him with the likes of ofter offence-baiting male stand-ups like Ricky Gervais, ...

Frank Skinner launching his podcast Frank Off The Radio, having been axed by Absolute Radio, is up for the listener-voted Radio Times Moment of the Year.

Rik Mayall was so annoyed at being left out of Band Aid that he wrote a letter of complaint to Bob Geldof. And here’s Benedict Cumberbatch reading the correspondence, in which the comic explained how ...

He says that on stage, ’I was just doing what I've always done, which is to try to make jokes about things that scare me, but in a way that doesn't necessarily undermine the real emotions that are at ...

Colin From Accounts has been renewed for a third season. Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer return to write and star as Gordon and Ashley, an age-gap couple brought together by looking after the ...

Aditya Gautam has a warm, unassuming charm that forges an instant rapport, even with a small Monday-night audience. It would feel intimate even if the crowd was a sizeable multiple more, he’s just got ...

The finals of Sketch Off – the UK’s premier competition for sketch and character comedy – makes for a lovely occasion to see ...