It’s a £1billion-a-year industry – but live comedy is blighted by low wages and is failing to do enough to help those from marginalised groups break into the business.

Dean Coughlin has become the second comedian to be named as a Chortle Hotshot for 2025. The Liverpudlian now gets help with the costs and promotion of his Edinburgh Fringe debut this summer after ...

Russell Brand’s pivot from comedian to online commentator is proving remarkably lucrative. Accounts newly submitted to Companies House show his business assets grew by £3.2million in the 12 months to ...

Steve Coogan has announced that he’s reuniting with Rob Brydon for a fifth series of The Trip. But the news was not announced in the entertainment press – but in court when he was trying to escape a ...

Filming has begun on a second series of Black Ops, as a string of guest stars are announced for the comedy thriller. Joining the show are Tom Stourton, Nigel Havers, Annette Badland, Ed Speleers and ...

The question of whether you should be watching G’wed or not will come down to how much belief you’re capable of suspending. Given the show’s wave of reported success, and the faith shown by ITV with ...

Entires have opened today for the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award. The competition has a formidable reputation for finding new talent with previous winners and finalists including Joe Lycett, Phil ...

Big Boys feels like a culmination of 12 years’ worth of work. Ever since I was 18, performing comedy, weird storytelling, ...

In Wales you are also twice as likely than other Bris to have watched the finale at least twice. Across the UK, 2.8miliion have watched the Christmas Day episode more than once, equivalent to 4 per ...

Brian Murphy, the star of 1970s sitcoms Man About The House and George And Mildred, has died at the age of 92. His wife Linda ...

The new season of Am I Being Unreasonable? also features Chelsea Peretti, Tom Davis, Denise Black, Jamali Maddix and Kojey Radical as guest star alongside returning stars including Lenny Rush, Dustin ...

‘It is so risqué some of the stuff, I can't even describe, you have to just listen to it,’ he said. ‘There’s some stuff that’s so wrong that it makes me laugh, because there are some things he says ...