Previously unknown material that legendary comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created for The Goon Show has been unearthed in their archive. The material - short, tightly written scripts ...

Writers are invited to submit their comedy scripts to a Fringe show that will stage their work with a cast of top comedians. The shows, to be performed at Monkey Barrel Comedy, will be directed Ed Bye ...

Welsh comedy actors Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are spending a nostalgic weekend in Merthyr Tydfil for a new BBC One programme airing next week. Once the ‘iron capital of the world’, Speirs’s hometown ...

Adam and Joe will be on Virgin Radio from 10am to 1pm on Sunday. Love You, Byeee, a follow-up to Buxton’s Ramble Book, is published by Mudlark, priced £22. It is available from Amazon at £18.73 – or ...

Channel 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have selected three half-hour scripts to be written as part of the broadcaster’s Comedy Lab in Northern Ireland, offering a major opportunity for writers to ...

The BBC has ordered a ‘darkly comedic’ crime drama based on the novels of former comic Caimh McDonnell and co-created by ex stand-up Chris Addison. Addison, now a director and writer whose credits ...

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special. A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins’s work contributed to ‘the spread of ...

Character comedian Ted Milligan has been given financial backing for his Edinburgh Fringe show from London’s Seven Dials Playhouse. The news comes as the Best in Class initiative also announces the ...

A new live version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is to open in London later this year.

Katherine Ryan has revealed she is pregnant with her fourth child. The 41-year-old comic appeared at an SXSW event in London on Monday with a visible baby bump and subsequently confirmed the news to ...

Lenny Henry, Ross Noble and Amandaland star Lucy Punch have gone diving with sharks for a new ITV reality show. Also taking part in Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters are TV presenter Ade Adepitan, ...

Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Rosco McClelland, Liam Withnail and Stuart McPherson are to release stand-up specials for free on online this June and July.