Comedian Mark Bittlestone has failed to be elected to London's Lambeth Council after being exposed for promoting antisemitic messages online. The stand-up secured 1,313 votes in the close-fought ward ...

Here's the trailer for Munya Chawawa's forthcoming documentary Wrestling With Trump. In the show – which airs on Channel 4 on Tuesday – the comedian hears how the US President harnessed the ...

Rich Wilson got into comedy after working as a barman at the Up The Creek club in Greenwich, South London. Inspired by the comedians he saw, he gave it a go himself in 2004, and has since become a ...

Dominic Holland has performed five solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival; his first, in 1993, winning him the Perrier best newcomer award. He was nominated for the main prize three years later. In 2000 ...

Joel Dommett and his wife Hannah Cooper have welcomed their second child. The pair announced the arrival of Dutch Cooper-Dommett on Instagram today, saying that the boy was ‘super late like his Father ...

However, it’s not really a play. If I Didn't Laugh I'd Cry: The Frank Carson Story may, putatively, be set as the Northern Irish comic recovers in hospital from a heart attack in his 50s, but any ...

The Live Comedy Association is to hold an event at the Houses of Parliament next month, aimed at building political support for grassroots comedy. The body has been working to get the government to ...

Here’s the official trailer for the second series of Smoggie Queens, before it returns to the BBC next Friday. Creator Phil Dunning plays lead character Dickie with Mark Benton, Alexandra Mardell, ...

Gilded Balloon has announced a new batch of 88 shows for this year's Edinburgh Fringe, including Scottish favourites Fred MacAulay and Jack Docherty – and Grace Campbell ’s new tour show The Lady Is A ...

• Thirst: Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life by John Robins is published by Viking and is available from Amazon priced £15.29 in hardback – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, which supports independent ...

Johnny Vegas is to play a priest in one of the next films in 5’s Play For Today. The comic – who briefly trained as a priest before turning to comedy – plays the troubled Father Adam in the ‘darkly ...

Ricky Gervais's animated series Alley Cats will launch on August 7, Netflix has announced. In the six-part adult comedy, which has been described as a ‘slacker sitcom’, Gervais voices one of a group ...