He said: ‘Hear me out — Paddington’s a toxic bitch. He is an illegal immigrant, freeloading off a nice, gullible white family. His sticky little marmalade paws are just waiting to rip open that trench ...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: Stand-up Phil Wang, Alma's Not Normal creator Sophie Willan and Black Ops star Gbemisola Ikumelo line up against presenter Kate Garraway, putting ...

LONDON: New Zealand's mime king, Trygve Wakenshaw, brings what was his first live show in seven years to the Soho Theatre for a week. When it debuted at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, it earned the ...

Anna Rae George has been selected as the last finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award following a public vote.

James Acaster has told how he took up comedy as part of a ‘bucket list’ after he was in a serious car smash. In his memoirs, Classic Scrapes, the comic previously wrote about having a ‘midlife crisis’ ...

Jack Whitehall has had a pretty good comedy career – but with no help from his godfather, Nigel Havers. The actor has confessed that he was hopeless at encouraging the young comic to pursue his dreams ...

Michael Spicer has made a second series of his Radio 4 sketch show No Room. The commission follows an 11-part series – including an election special – which aired last year.

» Watch Ken Dodd: A Legacy Of Happiness on iPlayer. Also available is Dodd’s in-depth 1996 Face-To-Face interview with Jeremy ...

A stalwart at the likes of Malcolm Hardee's Tunnel Club in the 1980s, Anthony Irvine’s act involved trying to melt large blocks of ice by ridiculous means, while pontificating to the audience, ...

With a title borrowed from the Mumsnet message board, the comedy thriller is written by and starring real-life best friends Selin Hizli and Daisy May Cooper and co-stars Dustin Demri-Burns and Lenny ...

29/03/2025 … Jack Whitehall has had a pretty good comedy career – but with no help from his godfather, Nigel Havers.