Garry Starr is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for ‘longest cumulative time of full-frontal nudity in a West End stage show’. The comic alter-ego of Australian clown Damien Warren-Smith performs ...

Jason Byrne is making a series he likens to an Irish version of The Simpsons. The loosely autobiographical The Irelands of Ireland is an adult animation set in a Dublin pub in the 1980s and 1990s. The ...

Men Behaving Badly is making a comeback – as a stage play. The sitcom’s original creator, Simon Nye, has written a show that will premiere at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester early next year.

Finlay Christie is to make his debut on Have I Got News For You. The comic will be appearing on the December 5 edition of the topical panel show opposite Green Party leader Zack Polanski, who is also ...

Comedy writer Gavin Petrie has died at the age of 83. He started out as a music and entertainment journalist – becoming features editor of the TV Times – before turning to comedy writing with his wife ...

The West End New Act Of The Year began in 2022, with this spin-off launched the following year to showcase comedians over the age of 35. The winners will receive ‘a small amount of money’.

Adrian Edmondson, Ted Lasso star James Lance and Comedy Story Player Josie Lawrence are to make guest appearances in the festive episodes of hit BBC detective show Death In Paradise and its spin-off ...

The guest performances mark the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth in Hampshire next month. The rotating Austentatious cast includes: Amy Cooke-Hodgson, Cariad Lloyd, Charlotte Gittins, Daniel Nils ...

Never mind the music, he’s the guy who simply likes to piss off all the other people in the gig… ...

Alex Horne has revealed a prank he played on Maisie Adam in the just-ended 20th season of Taskmaster. After every one of her task attempts, he interviewed her in a post-match style. But he didn’t have ...

Harry Jenkins, Comedy at the Castle director, said: ‘We are totally overjoyed to finally release our biggest and best line-up yet. Adding Lancaster Castle has been almost 18 months in the making, and ...

The series is being made by Big Talk Studios, whose chief executive Kenton Allen said: ‘As a proud state educated Midlands boy myself, I recognised so much of my own upbringing in Sue Townsend’s ...