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Rob Deering will be running his 11th London Marathon this Sunday. The comic will be raising money for Parkinson’s UK in ...
In the first hour, the witnesses will be Dr Sharon Lockyer, director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research based at Brunel University London, Leicester Comedy Festival founder Geoff Rowe and ...
If Eleanor Morton was in Pride & Prejudice in might be quite a different story. Here the comedian imagines how she would act ...
The line-up has been announced for this year’s Laugh In The Park outdoor gig in Glasgow. Des Clarke (pictured), 2025 Billy Connolly award-winner Rosco McCclelland, JoJo Sutherland and Joe ...
Black artists working in all genres have been invited to apply for a new tour celebrating Black History Month. And Still I Rise promises to celebrate ‘the rhythm, resilience and richness of’ of ...
Jack Whitehall has revealed that he suffered from bulimia when he first started appearing on TV. He disclosed his struggle with the eating distorted on the new Disney+ documentary about Andrew ...
The team behind Radio 4’s topical show Dead Ringers are to head out on their first tour in tribute to its creator Bill Dare, ...
Katherine Ryan has again called out sexual misconduct in the comedy industry – saying one ‘very famous’ comic shared videos of himself having sex to other stand-ups backstage. She did not identify the ...
One in 6 adults in the UK will lose their hearing in their lifetime; two of those are Ray Bradshaw ’s parents and this brand-new show is all about growing up as a Coda: A Child of Deaf Adults. His ...
Comedian, star and writer-creator of BBC’s critically acclaimed Spent, Michelle De Swarte is back on the road.
Reruns of classic TV comedies should not be held to the same standards of offensive language as new programmes, an archive broadcaster has said. Jonathan Moore, co-founder of free-to-air channel ...
It has been 14 years since Nick Helm won the Dave award for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. And now it can be revealed that he actually got the gag from his father. The comic came clean about ...