Now in its third year, the Crack Comedy Club in South West London crowned Mark Moloney as winner of its Smok’d new comedian of the year competition on Sunday night.

Big Break is returning with Paddy McGuinness as host. BBC Two is bringing back the snooker-based show as a half-hour daytime show, with former pro turned pundit Stephen Hendry as co-host. The show ...

Irish TV viewers will be shown the Eurovision-themed episode of Father Ted in place of the song contest’s final on Saturday. The Irish national broadcaster is boycotting the event in protest at Israel ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week we mark what would have been Eric ...

James Corden is heading back to late night American TV – if only temporarily. The comic will be hosting a show about each day’s action at the World Cup with ex-England captain Rio Ferdinand and ...

Onion Public Radio reporter David Pascall, who has long searched for the most resonant true-crime podcast that is also about middle America, heads to Bluff Springs, NE where the small town is reeling ...

Mackenzie Crook is to direct his first film – with his Detectorists co-star Toby Jones in the lead role. The project has the working title Mars Express and is based on the true story of Colin and ...

Brett Goldstein is to make a Romantic Comedy series about a divorced dad who accidentally becomes a male escort. Amazon’s Prime Video has picked up eight episodes of the half-hour single-camera show ...

The team behind NextUp has launched a 24/7 comedy radio station. Simply called ComedyUK, the channel draws on the streaming service's catalogue of stand-up specials from new, established and famous ...

Just because someone’s dead, doesn’t mean we have to be miserable about it.

As a former Cambridge Footlighter and graduate of the Philippe Gaulier clown school, Sameera Bhalotra Bowers comes with an impeccable comedy background. But diplomas are not everything, as her ...