Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

John Henry was a star of the new medium of radio in the 1920s and early 1930s, but took his life a month after the death of his romantic and stage partner Gladys Horridge. At her inquest, he claimed ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's a Bonfire Night special. Good luck!

Comedian Harry Deansway has been telling the High Court how the Dave TV series Live At The Moth Club ripped of his YouTube series Shambles. Both shows were set in comedy clubs and mixed on-stage ...

Sara Pascoe has announced her biggest tour yet, entitled I Am A Strange Gloop. The show charts her change from ‘self-exploration via sexual safari’ to being a middle-aged new mum who ‘must work out ...

How did Mike Wozniak learn how to be the assistant on Junior Taskmaster? From the original, of course. Here’s how Alex Horne ...

A host of comics have recorded a new sketch set in a support group or people with a very specific problem. Mark Silcox, Jo ...

Comics Patton Oswalt and Aaron Chen, pictured, have joined the cast of the new pickleball comedy film The Dink. Also joining the project are Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman Chris Parnell ...

Filming has started on series three of Tom Basden ’s BBC One family sitcom Here We Go. The series stars Jim Howick, Katherine Parkinson, Alison Steadman, Freya Parks, Jude Morgan-Collie and Tori Allen ...

The spin-off from Have I Got News For You is to be recorded in London later this month and promises ‘appearances from top comedians and sporting stars’. News that the show was in development by ...

Of course! I might try to come back next year if I can find the time. It's a special place to me. I was a child when I first started coming through, essentially an infant. I learned everything from ...

Maisie Adam was winner of So You Think You're Funny? new act competition at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and was then nominated for best newcomer at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Her first TV ...