Friends of comedian John Mann have rallied to raise funds after a respiratory illness has left him unable to work. Colleagues on the circuit are among those who have donated more than £6,500 to help ...

Romesh Ranganathan is to front a second series of Parents' Evening for ITV. The game show, in which three celebrity pairs of celebrity parents and children duos play against each other to win money ...

Sharon Horgan is to make a new comedy series about a 50-year-old divorcee’s search for sex and love while juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son.

The nominees are being announced today for the 2025 Chortle Awards, with the TV categories the latest round to be revealed.

Andy Zaltzman may have just claimed an unlikely record – as the first comedian to be nominated for a data journalism award. The News Quiz host and stand-up satirist has been shortlisted in the British ...

The Bristol Comedy Garden has announced its return to Queen Square. Now in its 14th year, the event will bring big-name comedians to its big top from June 4 to 8. The line-up includes Frankie Boyle, ...

Finlay Christie performed his first stand-up show as part of the Comedy Club 4 Kids nights at the tender age of 6, and went on to win So You Think You’re Funny in 2019 (when he was also a finalist in ...

Josie Long has announced a new tour show for the autumn, Now Is The Time Of Monsters.

It’s awards season, and the battle for the worst airline in the world is fiercer than ever! Join Broken News’ Perenium Shandy and Derkert McMichaelsboroughford to find out who will ‘take off’ with the ...

Born into a circus family Martin had an early career as a juggler, unicyclist, knife thrower, fire-eater, and magician. As the result of an accident in the big top, in which he sustained a shattered ...

The host of Radio 4’s News Quiz since 2020, Andy Zalztman is also the resident statistician on Test Match Special and one of the contestants on series 18 of Taskmasker. An Oxford classics graduate, he ...

Murray's grandfather Sir Ralph Murray was a diplomat, working at the Political Warfare Establishment propaganda unit. And his great-great-great-grandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray. Al wread ...