The first names have been announced for next year’s 40th anniversary Melbourne International Comedy Festival – with a number of Brits among them.

When people like it, they like it a lot. I know several comedians who think it's the funniest book ever written. I don't blow my own trumpet because I haven't taken credit for ideas for 30 years. They ...

American broadcaster CNN has released the trailer for the new biopic I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not. Billed as ‘authorised yet unfiltered’, the film takes its title from Chase’s biography and the ...

Filming has started on the BBC comedy pilot Shedites, based around a place where ‘men can make themselves useful building and repairing things’. Set in an Irish village, the show has been created and ...

The cast of Peep Show are reuniting for a Christmas Bake Off special. David Mitchell, Olivia Colman, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman are taking part in the special – but Robert Webb is ...

Russell Kane and Capital Breakfast DJ Sian Welby are presenting a new quiz app from ITV. The free-to-play game puts up a £1,000 prize pot daily – shared across 60 players who get all the questions ...

ITV has released some teaser clips for the third series of Alan Carr’s Changing Ends. The comedy returns on Sunday, and will be stripped across the week with new episode airing directly after I’m A ...

If the TV Festival moves out of Edinburgh it will be a wake-up call for the city and the Fringe as fears rise that exorbitant accommodation prices are making it increasingly unviable for performer ...

Urzila Carlson is to star in her own series mixing stand-up and sketches. The show – called simply Urzila – is being made for Australia’s ABC, where it will air next year. A number of other comics are ...

Eli Hart has been crowned winner of this year’s BBC New Comedy Awards. The comic took the prize at the final, which was held at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre last month, and which aired on BBC One ...

Thirty years on, and The Fast Show isn’t short of fans. This reunion tour which started last year is running into next, and catchphrases – the word ‘arse’, specifically – are yelled before the cast ...

The simply named Comedians Do Carols has been created by stand-up Amy Annette, who said: ‘For me, the best part of the festive period has always been the carols. Singing as loud as possible, often ...