A new live version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is to open in London later this year.

Alex Horne has staged a Taskmaster challenge for residents of an Oxfordshire care home. The comic said his session at Seccombe Court in the village of Adderbury was ‘probably he most memorable’ of all ...

Lenny Henry, Ross Noble and Amandaland star Lucy Punch have gone diving with sharks for a new ITV reality show. Also taking part in Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters are TV presenter Ade Adepitan, ...

Amy Gledhill tells about the time she had to be rescued from Go Ape in the latest Comedy Central stand-up video. The set comes from the comic's Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show last year, when she ...

As Amazon prepares to cast the next series of its game show Last One Laughing, one big name has thrown his hat into the ring. Lee Mack says he would love to participate in the Amazon Prime Video show ...

Diane Morgan has admitted she thought she’d never be asked to take part in the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? – after mocking it on screen. ‘I thought I’d blown it after I did a spoof of it in my ...

The printed edition of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has been unveiled today. It features 3,352 shows across 265 venues - though more will be added to the online box office as the festival ...

South London’s Banana Cabaret has announced the line-up for their 2025 Balham Comedy Festival. The event, now in its 13th year, features the likes of Rhys James, Shaparak Khorsandi (pictured) and Ria ...

Harry Hill is backing a new nationwide drawing project inspired by David Hockney. The comic has chosen the next theme for the Draw! project created as part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Rare footage of late American stand-up Mitch Hedberg has resurfaced – thanks to fellow comic Doug Stanhope. Stanhope has posted to YouTube a half-hour pilot that Hedberg recorded for MTV in 2001, ...

Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Rosco McClelland, Liam Withnail and Stuart McPherson are to release stand-up specials for free on online this June and July.

Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis will this week launch a comedy podcast examining the future of humanity. In each episode of Future Tense the pair will be joined by stand-up and science writer Helen ...