Tom Basden and Tim Key are up for more film awards for their comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island. The movie – directed by James Griffiths, from a script by the two comedians – is up for British or ...

Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have been found dead in their Los Angeles home in what police are treating as a double murder. Police and firefighters were called to the couple's ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.

A joke about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor losing his titles over his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has won the annual competition to find the best new Christmas cracker joke. Ben Smith, from ...

Justin Moorhouse has announced the tragic death of his son Barney, who was in his 20s. The stand-up, from Ashton-under-Lyne, posted a tribute on social media yesterday, writing: ‘It is with the ...

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackled the week's biggest news on Saturday Night Live last night. They started with Donald giving a rally about the economy – in a casino – and ...

GLASGOW: The Live At Christmas juggernaut comes to the O2 Academy with David O'Doherty, Dylan Moran, Tim Key, Amy Gledhill , Christopher MacArthur-Boyd. Tickets. With different line-ups it visits ...

BBC bosses have forced Robin Ince to step down from Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage over his social media posts backing pro-trans and other progressive causes. The comedian has co-hosted 207 episodes ...

The BBC has released the trailer for the Amandaland Christmas special. The episode sees Amanda and the family head to Aunt Joan's country house for the festive season. Saunders plays Joan, marking a ...

The Guardian headlined its three-star review: ‘Downton Abbey spoof is fast, funny and throwaway’ with writer Adrian Horton saying: ‘The dialled-up silliness of a spoof can wear quickly, and the ...

‘I was okay with the babies, I think, keeping them happy. But we chose them because they were calm, but if you go with calm babies, then when you want them to be joyful or silly or laughing or ...

Alex Horne and his band are partway through a marathon session singing a single song for 24 hours song. And the track he chose? How Long, the 1974 hit from the English band Ace, with its apt refrain: ...