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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

Here’s Edinburgh-bound stand-up Tiff Stevenson performing an extract from her festival show Post-Coital. The comic talks about entering middle-age, losing weight and what the dating pool will be like ...

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.