British stand-ups Red Richardson and Helen Bauer have made the cut for the prestigious New Faces showcases at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival. The gigs have traditionally only featured ...

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Comedian Rachel Baker has won the Dabbers Bingo comedy caller contest, performing as her high-energy, dance-loving alter-ego Gwen. The contest tests comedians on their ability to combine stand-up with ...

For seven years, I was part of an off-the-grid community in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, working as the assistant to an impossibly chic and diabolical female Buddhist cult leader. I have always ...

Its very funny, very Dublin and my mate Deirdre O’Kane is in it. At the time on Irish TV, there had been a serious lack of comedy. Paths To Freedom came a time where it made me sit up and pay ...

I will be binging on pastries from Mòr Bakehouse pre-show, and slices of pizza from £2 Pizza Slice post-show. I am performing my third solo show at the Fringe this year, and one of the things that ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. Sunday July 19. UNACCEPTABLE: Ed Gamble and team captains Joanne McNally and Richard Ayoade are joined by guests Alex ...

In a special edition of his diary, reviewer Tim Harding gives a personal rundown of the best comedy he's most looking forward to seeing at the Edinburgh Fringe next month. Those comics patiently ...

The BBC has ordered a third series of Smoggie Queens. Creator Phil Dunning is to make six new half-hour episodes of the comedy, based around a tight-knit group of LGBTQ+ friends in Middlesbrough. He ...

The first half of the week is dominated by Edinburgh previews almost everywhere, but here's the pick of the rest. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region. LONDON: Scott ...

Shane Gillis has established a record for most tickets sold for a show by a solo comedian. The American stand-up sold 76,212 tickets for last night’s gig at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Otherwise we were all responding or reacting to something, but we owned this.’ Syal agreed: ‘We've seen ourselves represented in so many bad ways, literally with blackface and the head waggling and ...