Katherine Ryan is to host the next series of a podcast in which two comedian guests write erotic stories about each other. Write Me Dirty has already run for one series without a host and with a very ...

Streaming service NextUp has announced its Edinburgh Fringe line-up. The programme will run from August 12 to 25 and includes Josh Glanc, pictured, Alison Spittle, Andrew O’Neill, Diona Doherty and ...

There are also two Fast ​Fringe showcases in Edinburgh every day, starting today: our long-running 6.30pm show at Pleasance Dome, and a new family edition – with clean material and no adult content – ...

Rhod Gilbert and Patrick Monahan have both stumped up prizes for this year’s ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Organisers Nathan Cassidy and Sarah Bowles, plus Nottinghamshire youth community radio station ...

Patrick Kielty has separated from Cat Deeley after 13 years of marriage. The strains of working apart has been blamed for the split. The comic hosts RTÉ's The Late Late Show in Dublin, while Deeley ...

Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson in 2014, pictured above. This completely changed the way I think about making stuff. It was the point where I lost interest in making shows that just went ‘Look at me ...

The comic claims the pinky was the best finger to lose, admitting that they ‘are not a professional pianist by any means’ and they have not had to alter any of the songs in their show.

Latitude remains the best outdoor festival for big-name live comedy, mitigating the effects of a daytime gig in a vast open-sided marquee with inevitable noise bleed with a line-up that’s just as ...

Comedian Cerys Nelmes is facing up to three years in a Turkish prison on shoplifting charges. The stand-up said she accidentally walked out of a Zara store in Istanbul with clothes before realising ...

Ruth Jones and James Corden have announced an ‘in conversation’ with event about Gavin & Stacey. The gig at the London Palladium on Monday October 6 coincides with the launch of their book When Gavin ...

Madeleine Brettingham has won the inaugural West End New Woman Comedian of the Year title. She took the £100 prize after seeing off competition from around 100 other entrants.

Studiocanal is next week releasing the 1960 crime caper Two Way Stretch – co-starring Bernard Cribbins and Lionel Jeffries – and 1963’s Heaven’s Above!, a social satire about an honest priest whose ...