Samira Banks has signed up to the Blue Book comedy agency. The comic won So You Think You’re Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, after just six months of performing stand up. She has performed as ...

Daisy May Cooper is in the cast of the new Astérix & Obélix animated series, it has been announced. The Am I Being Unreasonable star plays Impedimenta, the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, in ...

The thing you can’t actually see as a viewer, and you can't feel to the full extent, is when you go out to that room and someone says, ‘Good evening everyone,’ or a comedian comes out and makes a joke ...

Chris McCasuland is to make a BBC Two documentary on how technology has been life-changing for him, and what the future holds. The hour-long programme is titled Chris Mccausland: Seeing Into the ...

Here are the first images from inside the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow, which opens on Friday with a run of Natalie Palamides ’ show Weer. The 960-seat venue has been restored from the former 1930s ...

Romesh Ranganthan has told how he secretly cried in the toilets during his first job as a beancounter when he became overwhelmed at how sad he thought his life had become.

MPs are hearing from comics Matt Forde and Kate Cheka this morning as a Parliamentary committee looks at the state of the UK comedy sector.