The Sydney Comedy Festival has announced the winners of its 2026 awards, with Reuben Kaye and Frankie McNair sharing the Best Of The Fest award. Kaye’s show, Hard to Swallow, mixes political comedy ...

After Life has been named the best modern comedy in a new Radio Times poll. Ricky Gervais’s Netflix show topped a list of the best-loved shows which started in 2010 or later, beating Mackenzie Crooks’ ...

A new Joke of the Fringe contest is being launched at Edinburgh this summer. As the contest is being sponsored by Cheez-It snacks, organisers will be looking for the ‘Cheeziest’ gag of the festival to ...

What did the closure of the coal mines and the rise of Mr Blobby have in common? More than you might think, as this hard-hitting and harrowing documentary proves. Saturday Night Live UK exposed the ...

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee. The comic came to warn of the end of the world as contestant Melanie Bracewell, Anne Edmonds, Andy Saunders and Frank Woodley tried to spell the Latin names of ...

Thirty years on, and The Fast Show isn’t short of fans. This reunion tour which started last year is running into next, and catchphrases – the word ‘arse’, specifically – are yelled before the cast ...

As always, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackled the week's biggest news on Saturday Night Live last night. They covered Donald Trump meeting with Xi Jinping i ...

Two words about Saturday Night Live UK as its first season draws to a close: nailed it. The show has been a triumph, overcoming typical British cynicism that we could ever pull off a home-grown ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. ROBIN WILLIAMS IN BOSTON 2008: The late comic's official channel is releasing full shows of Williams as he travels the US working on his ...

The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein (Will Ferrell) paid a visit to President Trump (James Austin Johnson) in the opening sketch of last night's Saturday Night Live in the US. 'So what are you up to these ...

In a Travelodge in Bromsgrove, Louis Theroux interviews the one person he’s never managed to before.... Ncuti Gatwa, Al Nash, and Larry Dean – plus a special guest – featuring in this sketch from last ...

A cast of British comedy stars will feature in a ‘warm, uplifting and genuinely funny’ festive comedy film called Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint. Headlining the ensemble are John Bradley – who played ...