The Birmingham Comedy Festival has released the full programme of this year’s event, featuring more than 90 performances from Friday 3 to Sunday 12 October.

The bureaucrats got very specific in their advice to comedians, saying: ‘Instead of mocking "blindly confident men" it is better to explore the social causes for this mentality. Instead of blindly ...

Tina Fey, Charlie Brooker and Munya Chawawa have joined the speakers at next month’s Edinburgh TV Festival. 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt creator Fey will talk to Graham Norton on August 22, ...

Scottish comedian Susan Riddell has been charged with terrorist offences after a Ford Transit van was driven into the perimeter fence of a weapons factory in Edinburgh The offices of Italian firm ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And as Liam Neeson reboots the Naked Gun franchise, ...

One woman in the front row was enjoying it throughout and she was my lifeline, but near the end of the show I get attacked by a big zombie rabbit and at that point she had a panic attack and ran out ...

Corcoran’s artist address will take place at Greyfriars Hall in the Virgin Hotel at 5pm next Friday, August 1. It will be live streamed on the Edinburgh Fringe Facebook channel, and will be available ...

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced they will be handing out a Joke Of The Fringe title, after broadcaster Dave dropped its long-running prize. Organisers say they are keen that the new ...

Musical comedian Anna Hale recruits an audience member to help her sing a song at Chortle's Fast Fringe. The track comes from her Edinburgh Fringe show Control Freak, which will be on at 5.30pm in the ...

Sam Campbell is lending his voice to the new mascot of an Australian insurance company. The comedian plays ‘Fluffy’ in the series of animated adverts for Bingle Car Insurance. The theme of the ...

Robin Williams once offered to buy London’s influential Comic Strip comedy club – just so he could get more stage time to impress David Bowie. The Hollywood star apparently made the offer to compere ...

UK stand-ups Aurie Styla, Chloe Petts, Dan Tiernan and Vittorio Angelone have all been picked for the prestigious New Faces of Comedy showcases at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival.