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.

Eddie Murphy is to play hapless Inspector Clouseau in a new Pink Panther movie. The 64-year-old comic confirmed that he would be stepping into the character made famous by Peter Sellers.

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 ...

Chortle readers believe Edinburgh Fringe venues were wrong to cancel Jewish comedian Philip Simon by a margin of three to one.

The League Of Gentlemen have reunited for a new Radio 4 comedy-drama. Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have all lent their voices to writer Jeremy Dyson ’s new project, called High ...

Here's Ali Brice performing an extract from his Edinburgh show Eric Meat Gets The Chop at Chortle's Fast Fringe in London earlier this moth. Or at least he tries to, after getting into a conversation ...

Tributes have been paid to musical satirist Tom Lehrer, following his death at 97. He started writing music while a maths undergraduate at Harvard in the 1940s and although had relatively short career ...

Comedian Philip Simon says he has been axed by another Edinburgh Fringe venue because he is Jewish. He was one of the two acts dropped by the Whistlebinkies venue last week, with bosses citing ‘safety ...

Theatre people don’t like joke density, and comedy people don’t like things that feel like a play. As someone who likes when things are funny and have pathos, I often feel like I’ve got one foot in ...

Here's Lulu Popplewell talking about the terrible dates she’s been on recently, including a man who spent two hours telling her about a novel he wrote. The comic was at Fast Fringe performing an ...

Tributes have been paid to alternative comedian Andrew McBurney after his death was announced. A finalist in several new act competitions a decade ago, the Black Country-based comic was a regular ...

Two comedians have had their Edinburgh Fringe shows cancelled because they are Jewish. Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon were told they could no long perform at the Whistlebinkies Free Fringe venue ...