The Guinness World Record for the longest stand-up comedy performance by an individual is held by American comic David Scott. Going by the name The Midnight Swinger, he performed for 40 hours and 8 ...

Armando Iannucci is to be profiled by the BBC’s prestigious arts series Imagine The influential comedy showrunner has been interviewed by Alan Yentob for the programme, which will air on BBC One in ...

Liam Tulley has become the fourth comedian selected to be one of this year’s Chortle Hotshots. The laid-back comic took the ...

Rhys James has written his first book, all about his reluctance to ever do anything. You’ll Like It When You Get There will be released on August 14 – to coincide with the Edinburgh Fringe – and is ...

They say laughter is the best medicine… now patients are set to get comedy gigs on prescription. A scheme offering comedy to improve people's mental health and reduce NHS costs is being trialled in a ...

Channel 4 has launched a scheme to fund two half-hour comedy scripts from Northern Ireland. Production companies are now being invited to pitch ideas, with the top two being chosen in May.

The traditional world of stand-up, after music hall but before the Soho Theatre, is the world of club comedy: working men's clubs and beer halls full of stag dos, hecklers and predominantly white male ...

A wonderful, timeless alchemy of superb writing, memorable characters and sublime performances have ensured that this comedy about three isolated, eccentric priests and their batty housekeeper, living ...

American stand-ups Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silveman and Mark Normand have all announced UK dates this monrning. It what will be ...

Frank Skinner is to headline a one of the UK’s biggest outdoor comedy festivals this summer. Comedy At The Castle is expanding to Powderham in Exeter – where it will run on July 18 and 19 – after ...

A wooden-framed spiegeltent occupied St Andrew Square during the Fringe from 2014 to 2016 – until corporate neighbours such as RBS and Standard Life insisted the privately owned space, be used for ...

Instead, the liner’s fate is but a backdrop for Brookes’s typically knotty musings on what it is to be alive. Thoughts that are not always comfortable, but incisive, questioning – and frequently funny ...