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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Steel has announced extra dates for his new tour, The Leopard In My House, which talks about his cancer diagnosis. The news comes on the same day his book about the experience – which has the ...

Two QI ‘elves’ have lauded a food-based podcast, Lunchbox Envy – a sister for the hit No Such Thing As A Fish Manu Henriot ...

Four up-and-coming comedians and a sketch group from North East England have been shortlisted for best newcomer in in this year’s Chortle Awards, supported by Ticketmaster. They are: Abby Wambaugh, ...

Demi Adejuyigbe, Emma Sidi, Joe Kent-Walters and Rob Copland have all been nominated for the breakthrough act in in this year’s Chortle Awards, supported by Ticketmaster. Kent-Walters was named best ...