Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis will this week launch a comedy podcast examining the future of humanity. In each episode of Future Tense the pair will be joined by stand-up and science writer Helen ...

Marc Maron is bringing his WTF podcast to an end after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The comic’s talk show – one of the most popular on the internet – has been downloaded 1.1billion times ...

Marc Maron is bringing his WTF podcast to an end after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The comic’s talk show – one of the most popular on the internet – has been downloaded 1.1billion times ...

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.

Sean Patrick has won the Not So New Comedian Of The Year competition. The comic – who has been performing comedy since 2012 – ...

Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are to write a final episode of their time-slip sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart – as a novel. The show originally aired across 57 episodes on BBC One between 1993 and 1999 ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: ...

When the comic was 12, his father fell into financial trouble, and later had an affair, disappearing for several days. After trying some ‘Del Boy’-style schemes, he ended up being jailed for just ...

Ricky Gervais has been given his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And at the ceremony he joked that it was a ‘genuine thrill’ to be honoured alongside other icons, citing ‘Michael Jackson, Bill ...

A warrant has been issued for Reginald D Hunter to attend court over a private prosecution brought by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in almost 250 episodes of M*A*S*H has died at the age of 87. Her death in New York – believed to be from natural causes – was announced by ...