Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And as Liam Neeson reboots the Naked Gun franchise, ...

Corcoran’s artist address will take place at Greyfriars Hall in the Virgin Hotel at 5pm next Friday, August 1. It will be live streamed on the Edinburgh Fringe Facebook channel, and will be available ...

Musical comedian Anna Hale recruits an audience member to help her sing a song at Chortle's Fast Fringe. The track comes from her Edinburgh Fringe show Control Freak, which will be on at 5.30pm in the ...

Robin Williams once offered to buy London’s influential Comic Strip comedy club – just so he could get more stage time to impress David Bowie. The Hollywood star apparently made the offer to compere ...

Sam Campbell is lending his voice to the new mascot of an Australian insurance company. The comedian plays ‘Fluffy’ in the series of animated adverts for Bingle Car Insurance. The theme of the ...

Scottish comedian Susan Riddell has been charged with terrorist offences after a Ford Transit van was driven into the perimeter fence of a weapons factory in Edinburgh The offices of Italian firm ...

UK stand-ups Aurie Styla, Chloe Petts, Dan Tiernan and Vittorio Angelone have all been picked for the prestigious New Faces of Comedy showcases at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival.

Here’s the first picture from the set of Ted Lasso’s fourth season, as Apple TV+ confirmed that production is officially under way . Principal photography begins today in Kansas City, star and ...

Look, obviously Sam Campbell is a comedy sensation and everyone already knows about him. I don’t need to explain his idiosyncratic brilliance and his popularity is incredibly well established.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of attention. But it all started feeling pointless, ephemeral, and too precarious. I’d spent hundreds of hours of my life painstakingly building a presence on Twitter ...

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 ...