Paul Whitehouse has seen off a mugger near his North London home. The 68-year-old was targeted as he used a supermarket cashpoint in Islington. He had popped out to get some medication for his wife, ...

Kevin Bridges is not the first person to note that comedians’ routines are now expected to hit higher standards of morality and accuracy than politicians’ speeches. But that scrutiny shouldn’t worry ...

US authorities are investigating a collision between two trains. According to the Onion News Network, one was travelling from Chicago at 80mph, the other from Washington DC travelling at 75mph.

Here’s a new batch of outtakes from Season 22 of Taskmaster. The series features Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conti, and Richard Ayoade as well as Taskmaster Greg Davies and assistant ...

Sir Stephen Fry will host the gala evening of silent comedy films at next year’s Slapstick Festival in Bristol, it has been announced. He will introduce a triple bill at the Beacon: Buster Keaton’s ...

Katherine Ryan has told of getting a facelift just eight weeks after giving birth to her fourth child. The comedian had originally planned to use the same plastic surgeon who performed the procedure ...

Channel 5 is to air a documentary celebrating Alan Carr ’s life and career in comedy. The 90-minute special, titled Alan Carr: My Best Bits & More will air on October 24 – six days before the end of ...

Comedians Justin Moorhouse, Zoe Lyons and Jason Manford are to appear in the next series of 5’s crime drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries. Other familiar comedy faces joining the series include Birds Of ...

Use the live circuit. Live recordings at the Edinburgh Fringe and other comedy festivals are a good way to find podcasts while the hosts are trying out new ideas, and Chortle’s own monthly podcast ...

Rob Delaney is to star in a new comedy-drama about a pop star recovering from addiction. In Sober Companion, to air on Radio 4 and as a BBC Sounds podcast, the comedian will play Tim, a recovering ...

Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s sketch show returns to BBC Two and iPlayer next Wednesday, four years after the last series. To promote it the pair were obliged to do a promotional Q&A – and it’s ...

It is also the fourth longest-running play in West End history, according to the Society of London Theatre – behind The Mousetrap, which began in 1952 and is still going with more than 30,000 ...