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 ...

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 ...

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

However, concerns about inequality persist. The survey found that 86 per cent of respondents identified as white British or white (slightly more than the 82 per cent of the wider UK population), and ...

A free trial bringing laughter-based workshops to Westminster women is launching this week, backed by comedian Carly Smallman. It is the first in a series of nationwide trials for Comedy on ...

Comedians Elis James and John Robins have launched a podcast production company with their long-term producer Dave Masterman. Significant Productions will make comedy and entertainment content, ...

Beyond taking potshots at easy targets like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, vanishingly few comedians grapple with big political themes in an artistic zeitgeist dominated by personal stories.

In some ways her inexperience in this genre shows. Some routines, especially early doors, come off as scripted, like a witty newspaper column, and despite the titular promises of exposing her shame, ...

Aurie Styla and Nish Kumar have joined the line-up of the Moontown Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas. The pair are the only British acts on the line-up of the festival, which takes over a dozen venues ...

Here, Auton explicitly plays a character for the first time, portraying the lead role in a narrative about a man called Can, supposedly the world’s greatest motivational speaker, now retired.