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 celebrate Douglas Adams on what would ...

The comedian who called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage at a Donald Trump rally last year has landed a deal with Netflix. The streaming giant has announced that it will run three improvised ...

In Amazon’s Last One Laughing, comedians are put into a reality TV-style ‘house’ and challenged to keep a straight face while other contestants try to make them crack. And, says Jimmy Carr, the format ...

Comedians playing at the Pleasance’s 41st festival include Rhys Darby, Josie Long, Andy Parsons, Hal Cruttenden, Chloe Petts, Marjolein Robertson and Elf Lyons, who will be reprising her ‘bird trilogy ...

Not Going Out and Beyond Paradise are to be mashed up for a Comic Relief Sketch. Sally Bretton, plays the wives of both Lee Mack ’s character Lee in the sitcom and Kris Marshall’s character DI ...

Phil Wang is to host the Bafta Games Awards for the second year running. The comic is a lifelong gamer, starting with the Sega Saturn in the mid-90s. He says much of his childhood in Malaysia was ...

Matt Forde has become an ambassador for the Bone Cancer Research Trust It comes after the comedian and podcast was treated for chordoma, a form of primary bone cancer.

Sophie Duker has written her first novel about the ‘the dark realities of entertainment and TV.

York University has acquired a collection of Eric Morecambe’s handwritten joke books. The nine books contain material for the ...

Being a black woman can be an interesting journey. Between the Matrix-like moves I have to do to stop people from touching my Afro to the mental gymnastics of figuring out when to speak up for myself ...

Anoushay Okhai and Kwesi Sekyi are the latest additions to the Chortle Student Comedy Award final, after winning the two semis in London’s Museum Of Comedy yesterday. Both are students at King’s ...