James Acaster appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers yesterday – wearing the show’s own merchandise. The comic also spoke about pranking his friends into toasting to fascism, rigging American ...

And here’s the truth: I don’t want to cry on stage. I don’t want to deliver a monologue so audiences can pat themselves on the back for witnessing. I want people – especially mothers drowning under ...

Carisa Hendrix, the performer behind the glamorous 1940s-style socialite Lucy Darling, is back on tour with her show, Simply Darling. Hendrix first captured the world’s attention in December 2024, ...

The tour promises to cover her other TV appearances, too, including Celebrity Traitors and The Great British Sewing Bee. It runs for more than 60 dates, kicking off in Scunthorpe on September 23.

Mae Martin has signed a deal to develop projects with Netflix. The Canadian comic will record a stand-up special for the streamer, which will now have first refusal on any other series Martin develops ...

Last One Laughing UK was named best entertainment programme at the Broadcast Awards last night. Here We Go won the best comedy category, and Big Boys best comedy-drama, in the accolades handed out by ...

A man has been found guilty of stalking Joe Lycett. Sam Egerton had targeted the comedian online and been recorded shouting outside his house after he found out they lived on the same street in Kings ...

London’s Always Be Comedy is to take over the gig run by Banana Cabaret for the past 43 years. Chortle last month revealed that the Banana, one of the UK’s oldest comedy clubs, was leaving The Bedford ...

Comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri is joining the cast of BBC comedy Boarders. The stand-up – as seen on Taskmaster – appears as Mrs El-Fassi, a formidable headmistress at a rival school to St Gilbert’s.

A Russian comedian has been jailed for almost six years after making a joke about a disabled person. Authorities had accused Artemy Ostanin of ‘inciting hatred’ in a routine about a man without legs ...

Sky has announced the cast of Saturday Night Live – and confirmed that the show will launch on March 21.

The same Gloucestershire venue is behind this revival of Men Behaving Badly, although it might not be quite such an obvious choice for a reappraisal. Despite being immensely popular in its heyday, the ...