Ted Lasso star Phil Dunster is to host a West End comedy and entertainment show to raise money for Young Lives vs Cancer. The actor, who plays Jamie Tartt in the Apple TV+ sports comedy, became an ...

Ben Elton has extended his Authentic Stupidity tour into 2025. The 65-year-old comic has added 34 new dates in January and February, taking the total to 82 shows, including a newly-announced West End ...

Sharon Horgan is to play the mother of Amanda Knox in a new mini-series about the American wrongly jailed for murder in Italy. The Bad Sisters and Catastrophe co-creator will play the ‘desperate but ...

Dave Chappelle had the most-watched stand-up special on Netflix in the first six months of the year. His controversial show The Dreamer, which was released on New Year’s Eve, attracted 17.4million ...

Liverpool’s Hot Water Comedy Club is to launch a weekly all-female comedy night, just days after being called out for the lack of women on its bills. Crushing! kicks off next Thursday, compered by ...

Ben Elton is well aware of his evolution from the politicised firebrand who was the public face of 1980s alternative comedy to elder statesman of the stand-up scene, valiantly trying to battle ...

Eric Sykes gives you value for money with his memoirs. Not only does If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Will weigh in at a hefty 491 pages (well, at 82 years of age, there’s a long life to be fitted in), but ...