Helen Bauer talks about being the only single girl in her friendship group – which she concedes ma be because her personality is ‘confronting’. And she admits that while she wants a relationship, she ...

Cassie Workman talks about returning to Australia after living in Brooklyn for a couple of years in this set from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She speaks about how she felt she had to ...

Environment campaign group Parents for Future have turned to comedians to get their message out about climate-friendly energy. This new sketch follows two detectives - played by Naomi Petersen and Ed ...

Comedy bookers, venue staff and union officials are to give evidence to MPs about the treatment of women in live comedy next week. The women and equalities committee will hold its second evidence ...

Comedy feels different in the Middle East right now – and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In comedy rooms across the UAE, the laughs are coming a split second quicker than usual. Not necessarily ...

A spoof version of 12 Angry Men starring a cast of stand-ups is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe - 23 years after a similar – but sincere – production was the talk of the festival. Comic Owen O’Neill, ...

A lost episode of a 1968 Morecambe and Wise show is set to be broadcast after being unearthed in a private collection. The programme was one of four from the duo’s first series back at the BBC after ...

Adam Ernest Pickard has won the UK Pun Championships at the Leicester Comedy Festival. The comedian saw off competition from Katie Pritchard, Louie Falls, Mary Cross, Nayim Ali, Paggy Gacheva, Richard ...

The contestants have been announced for Romesh Ranganathan’s gameshow based on ‘Would You Rather?’ dilemmas – and they all found fame as online content creators. They are Chunkz, Nella Rose, Max ...

Comedian Diona Doherty and Schitt’s Creek actor Dustin Milligan are to co-star in a new BBC romcom. Committed follows Canadian Peter Hooley (Milligan), a recently divorced accountant, who falls head ...

Stewart Lee has written a book based on his stand-up routine deconstructing Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussycat. The comedian has teamed up with illustrator David Waywell for Pea Green Boat, ...

The Live Comedy Association is hosting an online briefing on tackling bullying, harassment and discriminatory behaviour on the stand-up circuit. It will focus on how standards to confront such ...