Andrew Maxwell has become the latest British-based comic to play the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle can reveal. The Irishman opened for Jimmy Carr in the Saudi capital – although like ...

You don't have to do it by committee, which is what I've found frustrating throughout my television career. Those suggestions of creative changes where you end up with something with no resemblance to ...

Alan Davies says he believes Jennifer Aniston once tried to seduce him – but he messed it up. The comic met the Friends star in 1997 when they were on the same Gala show for the Prince's Trust, with ...

It was one of the most roundly slated British comedy films ever – yet plans have been floated to turn Sex Lives Of The Potato Men into a TV series. Johnny Vegas has told Chortle that he and co-star ...

And now here’s a new book – The Trump Alpha-bet – so you too can have the same command of the English language as him. It’s all thanks to Canadian satirical series This Hour Has 22 Minutes: ...

Rowan Atkinson’s new series Man vs Baby will launch on Netflix on December 11, the streamer has announced. The follow-up to Man vs Bee will see the Mr Bean star return to the role of Trevor Bingley, ...

Romesh Ranganathan is to make his West End debut, starring in an Alan Ayckbourn play. The comic will star opposite Sheridan Smith in the darkly comic psychological drama Woman in Mind from December.

Miles Jupp is to host a new satirical podcast – marking his first return to hosting comedy since leaving BBC’s News Quiz in 2019. The Moment will be released weekly from October 24, with episodes ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about body-swap ...

The BBC has ordered a fourth series of Tom Basden ’s Here We Go – plus a New Year’s Eve special to air this year. All the key cast will be returning for the new episodes, including Jim Howick, ...

Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, ‘Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,’ she posted on Instagram. ‘Stop ...

Sandwell comic Ryan S Lewis has won the Breaking Talent Award at this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival. The comic said the award was ‘a testament to all those late nights travelling [to gigs], trying ...