Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about cameo ...

Comedy sketch group Tarot have been announced as winners of the 2025 Next Big Thing award. The prize, set up by the British Comedy Guide this year, aims to highlight ‘the act most deserving of the ...

Josh Jones, Jen Brister and Two Pints Of Lager duo Will Mellor and Ralf Little have all announced tours today,. Fresh from having to leave Dancing On Ice because of injury, Jones has revealed the ...

Vinny Shiu has been selected as the next Chortle Hotshot of 2025 following a showcase at London’s Hot Water comedy club last night.

Jen Brister is Reactive - or so she's been told. Apparently you don't have to respond to every little thing around you. Finding herself in a constant state of exacerbation at the state of the world ...

One wrote on Twitter: ‘I’ve lost a lot of respect for [Peter Kay] after the way he treated a heckler at the end of his Manchester 8 Feb show, having him removed by force by his entourage and cracking ...

Entries have opened for the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year. Run by the Comedy Bloomers club, the title has previously been won by Marty Gleeson, pictured, Victoria Olsina and Charlie George ...

Will Bicknell-Found has been crowned the 2025 UK Pun Champion at the Leicester Comedy Festival. The comic – who also goes by Will BF or Will B. Found – won with gags including: ...

The Cardiff Glee joins London’s Angel Comedy, Backyard Comedy, and Museum of Comedy; the Birmingham Glee, Manchester’s Frog & Bucket, Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel and Leicester’s Big Difference as venues ...

Alice Fraser has fallen in love… with romance novels. She’s written a delirious love letter to the genre and now she has to live with the consequences. If you love romance novels, or if you have no ...

Comedy fans can look forward to an unfiltered, no-holds-barred performance from Deirdre as she delivers an evening of relentless laughs, fuelled by her distinct blend of raw humour and unapologetic ...

Peter Kay fans have turned on the comedian after what was described as a ‘chaotic’ performance in Manchester on Saturday.