American comedy talk show institution The ​Late Show with Stephen Colbert is to end in May, the CBS network has unexpectedly announced. Executives said the surprise move was a ‘purely a financial ...

This 'greatest hits' tour will include his classic songs, You Can’t Stay That to Me, Sleazy Massage, Elvis Sucks and his Corky classic Only Gay Eskimo mixed with madcap routines and stories about Phil ...

A major new documentary about Joan Rivers will tap into hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings. Makers of the feature-length film have been given unprecedented access to the ...

The Easiest Quiz Show In The World is the latest project for Strictly Come Dancing winner McCausland. Also coming soon is Seeing Into The Future, a BBC Two documentary in which he heads to Silicon ...

The Lying Game: The comics must each tell an anecdote about the same randomly selected topic. However, while five of them are telling a true story, two of them are lying through their teeth. Their ...

Britain's first female Chancellor was last year told it would cost £8,000 to take out the offending item – and that it was once used by Winston Churchill – so it has remained in place. Treasury ...

Anu Vaidyanathan has had a varied career: engineer, first Asian woman to complete Ultraman Canada (a 10k swim, 420k bike ride and 84.4k run), screenwriter and comedian. She’s back at the Fringe with a ...

The BBC has released a trailer for the third series of Here We Go ahead of its launch next Friday. It shows the family holidaying in Malta, dad Paul (Jim Howick) in his new role as police constable, ...

Ivo Graham, comedian tour datesEton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 ...

Double, once dubbed by Stewart Lee as 'the Charles Darwin of alternative comedy’, runs a comedy module at the University Of Kent and has written books on the topic including Getting The Joke and Stand ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up.