With his soft voice and puppyish demeanour, Pope is a very gentle comedian, but he has an unmistakeable way with words, and mines a lot of borderline raunchy humour from his medical adventure with an ...

Ria Lina talks about giving an International Women's Day speech to a very 'gammony' audience at a City financial institution in this stand-up clip. It comes from her Edinburgh Fringe comedy show ...

Fred MacAulay has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The 68-year-old says he has no symptoms but got checked out because of his family history.

Paul F Taylor is a societal outlier who’s wurring wizzing fizzy brain delightfully lands on a variety of subjects like a dizzy fly, only to take flight a few moments later and land on another ...

At one point I was slurping down some soda and a joke hit so hard I laughed, choked, and all this coke came spraying out of my nose and into the bucket of popcorn in my lap. My friends were so mad! I ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: ...

MANCHESTER: The ongoing Creatures Comedy Festival has declared today 'Northern Takeover Day' with acts front the region including Rob Auton, Jack Carroll and working-class acts from Best In Class, ...

Anu Vaidyanathan has had a varied career: engineer, first Asian woman to complete Ultraman Canada (a 10k swim, 420k bike ride and 84.4k run), screenwriter and comedian. She’s back at the Fringe with a ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up. The Father Ted and ...

Stand-up Laura Lexx and comedy historian Dr Oliver Double are to launch a video podcast about comedy. Lexx describes the show as ‘nerdy in a leather-bound way: libraries and dust motes, and poring ...

As an interactive, randomised sketch show where anything could happen it encompasses the energy of the Fringe, and that’s why we want to debut in Edinburgh.’ May has been a the Fringe before with her ...

Satirist Rosie Holt has written a new play about Rachel Reeves's real-life fight to get rid of the urinal in her private bathroom at No11 Downing Street. Britain's first female Chancellor was last ...