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Birmingham's Jasper Carrott celebrates 80th birthday and 'still loves comedy'

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The Brummie comedian talks of his career, how he got his stage name and more to the BBC.

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Hit TV show Two Doors Down to make shock comeback

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Two Doors Down is set to make a shock comeback after the series was shelved following the death of the sitcom’s co-creator.

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Beyond Paradise and Not Going Out crossover sketch confirmed

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Mack spent a full day filming the sketch in Cornwall so it has "the look and feel of Beyond Paradise but with very Not Going Out dialogue".

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Top UK comedy club bans audience members with botox after ‘numerous complaints’

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One of the UK’s leading comedy clubs has banned guests with botox in a move that’s no laughing matter for those with “reactionless” faces.

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Can Mitchell and Webb revive the sketch show?

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As David Mitchell and Robert Webb begin shooting a new comedy show for Channel 4, Dominic Maxwell finds out why sketch shows fell out of fashion in the first place

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‘That episode is in the bin!’ Dave Gorman on his return to TV – and dropping Gregg Wallace

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The check-shirted Googlewhacker is back with another series of Modern Life Is Goodish. The comic talks about finding life’s joyful side, setting fiendish crosswords – and his low-key calamity with the MasterChef host

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Mitchell & Webb are back on Channel 4 with a brand-new sketch show

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David Mitchell and Robert Webb are returning to Channel 4 with a brand-new sketch show, which sees them combine forces with a host of exciting and innovative future stars, marking a bold return to British sketch comedy with an innovative merging of comedy minds across generations.

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Leicester: Puns see comedian crowned UK's number one

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Knockout punchlines delivered inside a boxing ring saw a new winner crowned in the 2025 UK Pun Championships.

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When is Modern Life Is Goodish coming back?

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Ep 1 – Twelve is the Number We Do Things In

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LEE MACK'S NOT GOING OUT RETURNS TO THE STUDIO FOR FOURTEENTH SERIES

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Lee Mack’s much loved, multi-award-winning studio sitcom will return for a new series on the BBC in 2025. Not Going Out is the UK’s longest running UK sitcom currently on air and recently joined an elite group of sitcom centenarians when the 100th episode aired during the BBC’s 2023 Christmas schedule.

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Coogan spared lengthy driving ban to film comedy series

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Tim Minchin announces major UK tour for 2025

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Tim Minchin has announced a new UK tour, Songs The World Will Never Hear, marking the 20th anniversary of his arrival on the British comedy scene.

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Professor Stanley Unwin interviews Frank Sidebottom

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Travel Man Joe Lycett returns

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Travel Man Joe Lycett returns

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Abby talk

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The week's best live comedy

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Gavin and Stacey and Outnumbered are great, but why aren't there any new sitcoms on British TV?

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We used to have Great British sitcoms coming out of our ears. Now, the only hope of a laugh round here is via a nostalgia-mining reunion

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Cunk's Philomeaning of life

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The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming

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Victoria Wood award-winner goes on tour

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Charlie Brooker: We *could* do a Philomena Cunk-Black Mirror crossover

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Charlie Brooker says he has considered making a Black Mirror / Philomena Cunk crossover.

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Prepare for a jovial man with a white beard...

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The week's best live comedy

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A special time of year...

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Stand-up shows head the best of the week's comedy on TV and on demand

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Enjoy some alternative Christmas shenanigans

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The week's best live comedy

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Sara Pascoe headline a Live At Christmas comedy tour

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The week's best live comedy

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A special week of specials

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Six new stand-up shows... and the rest of the week's best TV and radio comedy

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Stewart Lee – and the Wulf-Man – start their London residency

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Jack Whitehall's star-studded Christmas special

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Welcome to the hellmouth (it's more fun than it sounds)

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Meet Middlesbrough’s Smoggie Queens

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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When Gary met Rab: Comedy icons confront generation gap in sitcom

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Paddy McGuinness raises over £9 million after charity bike ride

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Paddy McGuinness has raised more than £9 million following his charity bike ride for BBC Children in Need.

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Rob Beckett's got some neck!

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Jack Dee is back on the road

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The best of the week's live comedy

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‘I was a stuffed shirt, he was an oik’ – Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on making Have I Got News for You

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John Lloyd hosted it, which he didn’t enjoy, with journalists Simon Hoggart and Jaci Stephen, myself and Ian. The idea was that Ian would know all the news questions and I could provide the comedy. Ian would be the intelligent one and I would be the funny one. It wasn’t the most promising start, but the BBC had already committed to a series. Producer Harry Thompson and comedian Angus Deayton wrote the scripts. Harry had a keen sense of humour. He’d say: “Here’s a joke for you. Angus doesn’t think it’s funny.” When it got a laugh, Angus would have this quizzical look on his face.

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Filming starts on Here We Go series 3

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Filming has started on series three of Tom Basden’s BBC One family sitcom Here We Go.

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Count Arthur will be Dickens about

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Plus Hannah Gadsby, Andy Zaltzman, Natalie Palamides and the rest of the week's best live comedy

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Lucy Beaumont and Johnny Vegas take on dangerous roads

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Putting the 'ha' in Halloween

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The week's best live comedy

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Alex Edelman's Just For Us special comes to Sky

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Ronny Chieng comes to the UK

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The best of the week's live comedy

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‘Something special’: Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones on bucolic comedy beauty Detectorists, 10 years on

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The open-hearted paean to friendship and a quiet life has become a global hit after charming viewers the world over. As it turns 10, its stars reflect on how they made TV magic

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Simon Bird's cult comedy (literally) returns

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Emma Sidi's Sue Gray takes on her mission to the nations and regions...

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Alma's Not Normal returns

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The week's best comedy on TV and radio

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BBC Open All Hours sitcom corner shop set to be auctioned off

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A South Yorkshire hairdressers better known as a corner shop in a hit BBC sitcom is set to go under the hammer.

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Pierre Novellie hits the road

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Greg Davies is back as The Cleaner

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

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Taskmaster's Alex Horne previews new Live Experience: "It's a really faithful reflection of our stupid show"

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From rubber ducks to "bin juice" cocktails – everyone's favourite assistant gives us a tour of the ambitious new London attraction.

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Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller look back: ‘We were really cross with each other, slamming the door and saying: That’s it’

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The comedy double act on playing it cool, bombing at Edinburgh, and how their friendship endured after they branched out on their own.

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Inside CNN's New Comedy Quiz Show. Yes, You Read That Right

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U.S. version of the venerable British news/comedy show, #HIGNFY.

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Slough on the uptake...

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming

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Cats Does Countdown - Jimmy Carr Juggling Kittens

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/20504617

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A Celebration of Father Ted with Joe Rooney

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As noted at the get go it’s a difficult show to describe, rarely do you get to go to a comedy special that features a viewing of an episode of a TV show, a quiz, some stand up, some comedy songs, and not one but two separate audience participation contests. Yet it somehow works. Rooney keeps the audience on side for the whole set, with his affable personality and a sense of humour reminiscent of the Father Ted era he keeps the crowd laughing along and joining in; he’s got great stage presence and a very pleasant sounding guitar. The tinge of self-deprecation to the humour is spot on and it’s difficult to pick fault in the show, whatever the show is! At two hours with a 15 minute interval it really flies; the pacing is solid, as is the writing and the tone, the songs are clever and funny, and the energy level is consistent.

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Another week, another eight comedy tours!

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The week's best live comedy

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Trash talking

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Count Binface and a host of new tours in this week's live comedy line-up

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Taskmaster's back for series 18

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The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming

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Things You Should Have Done gets a second series

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The BBC has ordered a second series of Lucia Keskin’s Things You Should Have Done.

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'We didn’t worry about a few dirty laughs!’ The Carry On women on playing nags, bra-burners and ‘crumpet’

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No one could say that the Carry On movies stretched their female stars, or paid them generously. But, decades later, Amanda Barrie, Valerie Leon, Sheila Hancock and co have fond memories.

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Roisin Conaty joins Funny Woman

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming

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Billy Connolly in his own words

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming

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Katherine Ryan, Nish Kumar and more hit the road

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The best of the week's live comedy

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Ben Elton preps his new tour

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The week's best live comedy

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