Rice is due to perform his Cruel Little Man tour at Melbourne until the end of the festival on April 19, followed by dates in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. • Click here to make Chortle a 'preferred ...

Here’s 88-year-old Marie McLaren performing stand-up for the first time, after part in a Glasgow International Comedy Festival scheme. Marie performed a five-minute set at the festival after she took ...

Elsewhere, Wittrup’s often inappropriate mum is a source of laughs, inspiring one entry that lists all the reasons why she was such a bitch. Lest the audience doubt the provenance of the material, a ...

Instead, Touching My Active Mind is a grab-bag of fatuous madness, powered by the comic’s unbridled enthusiasm for just having a laugh, however dumb. He affects being tongue-in-cheek when he promises ...

No Small Talk is something of a misnomer for Anisa Nandaula given she loves chit-chat with her audience.

Saturday Night Live UK last night took on the unconscious racial bias apparently shown by players of The Traitors. In the skit, contestants sat around a round table trying to root out a ‘great big ...

LONDON: Celebrating its 18th year, the Musical Comedy Awards comes to a head with a final at Bloomsbury Theatre. The line-up includes Dru Cripps, Tom Veck, Jonny Bennett, Will and Noah, Eoghan Collins ...

NATURE TABLE: Sue Perkins returns with her comedy panel show celebrating the natural world. In this opening episode, she's joined by comedian Amy Gledhill, zoologist Lucy Cooke and entomologist ...

Keir Starmer has called on some British icons to try to inspire the nation – because he can’t. At least that was the premise of the Saturday Night Live UK opening sketch last night. George Fouracres ...

Elliot Wood’s lusty portrayal of the sort of lunatic who would do such a thing is as maniacally unhinged as you’d hope. He’s as committed to the madness of his role as Mrs Lovett was to the madness of ...

The Cave nominally makes an attempt to understand some of this. The title refers to the Kiwi comic’s tweenage bedroom and she talks us through its contents, such as the posters on the walls, to ...

Russell Brand has sold the Oxfordshire pub he bought five years ago, making a £100,000 profit on the sale. The former comedian bought The Crown in Pitsill near his Henley-on-Thames home for £870,000 ...