Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. Sunday July 19. UNACCEPTABLE: Ed Gamble and team captains Joanne McNally and Richard Ayoade are joined by guests Alex ...

Shane Gillis has established a record for most tickets sold for a show by a solo comedian. The American stand-up sold 76,212 tickets for last night’s gig at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Sha Wylie, who is believed to have been England’s oldest stand-up comedian, has died at the age of 81. She took up comedy after signing up to a comedy course at the age of 62 and was a regular ...

The manager of the venue forced to close because of the financial woes of Leicester Comedy Festival has raised almost £18,000 to save it. A total of 376 supporters have so far pledged money to revive ...

Diane Morgan’s Ann Droid seems very timely, given it seems increasingly likely that robot companions will soon be playing a crucial role in elderly care, whether we like it or not. On the flip side, ...

Otherwise we were all responding or reacting to something, but we owned this.’ Syal agreed: ‘We've seen ourselves represented in so many bad ways, literally with blackface and the head waggling and ...

The Women in Comedy On The Rise list has been compiled from the Gobby Girls community of 2,500 women and non-binary people working in the business. The group is run by the female-led production ...

The BBC has ordered a third series of Smoggie Queens. Creator Phil Dunning is to make six new half-hour episodes of the comedy, based around a tight-knit group of LGBTQ+ friends in Middlesbrough. He ...

Liverpool’s Hot Water Comedy Club is throwing a four-day comedy festival in September. The company will stage more than 70 comedy shows at its Blackstock Market home from September 3 to September 6.

In a special edition of his diary, reviewer Tim Harding gives a personal rundown of the best comedy he's most looking forward to seeing at the Edinburgh Fringe next month. Those comics patiently ...

But making FBI director J Edgar Hoover’s closeted homosexuality almost the entire focus of Here Comes J Edgar! flattens out a complicated character – and, more crucially, removes much dramatic impetus ...