Belfast is to host the next BBC Comedy Festival, it has been announced today. The event will be a chance for producers, both established and new, to celebrate and explore comedy in the UK, and aims to ...

Satirical website The Onion has bought the far-right website Infowars. The new owners say they plan to turn the former hate factory into ‘a very stupid website’.

Kiwi comic Rhys Darby is returning to the stage with a new stand-up show, The Legend Returns. A total of 19 UK and one Irish date have been announced for the tour, which is is first in nearly a decade ...

In a world full of AI and robot tech can a simple dad with slightly tight jeans stay relevant? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes! Rhys hopes to prove that right now a touch of very human silliness ...

Johnny Vegas is reviving Ideal – as a stage show. The comic will be reprising his role as small-scale weed dealer Moz in a 20th anniversary production at the Lowry, Salford next year.

'An AI Tommy Tiernan would be like a perfectly-cooked steak… made entirely of tofu. Technically, it *might* look the part, but it’ll lack that essential… *je ne sais quoi*. That primal scream of the ...

He was 15 minutes into his comedy show Undoctored at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday when an audience member shouted: ‘Medic!' And luckily there were plenty in the room, as Kay tends to attract a ...

Paul Hilleard has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award. He was crowned at a final at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham that was broadcast on BBC One tonight. ‘Sound, innit? Nice,’ he said after ...

Piff the Magic Dragon’s canine companion Mr Piffles has died just shy of his 17th birthday. The Flamingo in Las Vegas, where ...

Never seen before images from the personal archive of the late Terry Jones are to be exhibited in his Colwyn Bay birthplace. News of the show comes as a crowdfunder to erect a statue of the Monty ...

Harriet Kemsley has taken over as host of the podcast Desert Island Dicks. In a reversal of the Radio 4 format, the show asks its guests to choose the people and things they’d least like to be ...

Timothy West has died at the age of 90 after a long career spanning great classic dramas to countless comedy roles.