Andrew Maxwell has become the latest British-based comic to play the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle can reveal. The Irishman opened for Jimmy Carr in the Saudi capital – although like ...

Alan Davies says he believes Jennifer Aniston once tried to seduce him – but he messed it up. The comic met the Friends star in 1997 when they were on the same Gala show for the Prince's Trust, with ...

You don't have to do it by committee, which is what I've found frustrating throughout my television career. Those suggestions of creative changes where you end up with something with no resemblance to ...

It was one of the most roundly slated British comedy films ever – yet plans have been floated to turn Sex Lives Of The Potato Men into a TV series. Johnny Vegas has told Chortle that he and co-star ...

And now here’s a new book – The Trump Alpha-bet – so you too can have the same command of the English language as him. It’s all thanks to Canadian satirical series This Hour Has 22 Minutes: ...

Rowan Atkinson’s new series Man vs Baby will launch on Netflix on December 11, the streamer has announced. The follow-up to Man vs Bee will see the Mr Bean star return to the role of Trevor Bingley, ...

Romesh Ranganathan is to make his West End debut, starring in an Alan Ayckbourn play. The comic will star opposite Sheridan Smith in the darkly comic psychological drama Woman in Mind from December.

Maisie Adam was winner of So You Think You're Funny? new act competition at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and was then nominated for best newcomer at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Her first TV ...

Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, ‘Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,’ she posted on Instagram. ‘Stop ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about body-swap ...

Gavin and Stacey co-creator Ruth Jones will write and star in new BBC comedy about middle-aged relationship. The as-yet-untitled show is a collaboration with Steve Speirs, star of the Welsh sitcom The ...

The BBC has ordered a fourth series of Tom Basden ’s Here We Go – plus a New Year’s Eve special to air this year. All the key cast will be returning for the new episodes, including Jim Howick, ...