Every month our clandestine critic reveals the murky truths behind that infamous trade, and live comedy generally. This month ...

Comedy drama The Dry is due to return to ITVX in 2026 for a third series. The news has been announced ahead of the second ...

The West End Comedy Club has revealed it has now closed, due to the landlord of the Covent Garden Social Club - where it ...

Stand-up Nina Gilligan has been awarded the Best Comic title in the Comics' Comic awards. As in previous years, the results were determined exclusively via poll of comedians working on the UK comedy ...

Here's the good news. The British public love comedy. Over Christmas and the new year, many of the most-watched programmes on British television were comedies. And some of the viewing figures - and ...

A QI video. The QI producers say: "We've told the panellists not to be funny before the main show but they just won't listen!" ...

3. A new Alan Partridge series was filmed in 2024, to be broadcast in 2025. What was the title revealed to be? 5. Joke of the Fringe 2024: "I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ...

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are recharged, ready for the year ahead. So there should be plenty for members to look forward to, and get involved in. In the meantime, perhaps you're ...

Stephen Fry has been recognised in the New Year Honours List with a knighthood. The comedy actor and writer said he was "startled and enchanted" after receiving the letter informing him of his ...

Nathan Cassidy has opted for a Christmas Day release for his latest stand-up special, Amnesia. The comic won the Best Stand-up title at the Brighton Fringe 2023 for Amnesia and the special was ...

Let's look back, forty years, to the New Year's Eve of 1984: the clock is ticking, Big Ben is building up to its bongs, and, after the stroke of midnight, that fancy new thingummyjig, the mobile phone ...