Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance. The book, Laughter is the Best Medicine, is to be published in November and is described as ‘a nostalgic ...

The five acts in the running for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award have been announced. They are: Bab, Abbie Edwards, Abbie Hale, Harry Jenkins and Ryan S Lewis. All will be ...

Production company Big Finish Originals are to release six new full-cast audio sitcom pilots from up-and-coming writers. The Comedy Playhouse collection – due out in November – came as a result of an ...

Cabbage The Clown takes on the role of a cinema’s extra-large reusable Suckee cup in this set from Chortle’s Fast Fringe. The performer’s Edinburgh show, Cinemadrome, is based on her former ...

Other celebrities playing the Traitors: Live Experience event in London include Capital Breakfast’s Chris Stark, TV presenters Marvin and Rochelle Humes and Radio 2’s Scott Mills – as well as several ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...