Aditya Gautam has a warm, unassuming charm that forges an instant rapport, even with a small Monday-night audience. It would feel intimate even if the crowd was a sizeable multiple more, he’s just got ...

The finals of Sketch Off – the UK’s premier competition for sketch and character comedy – makes for a lovely occasion to see ...

Colin From Accounts has been renewed for a third season. Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer return to write and star as Gordon and Ashley, an age-gap couple brought together by looking after the ...

• The Way They Were, a podcast about famous break-ups hosted by comedians Gráinne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate is celebrating its 100th episode this week with comedy legend Paul F Tompkins and ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week it's all about Simons... Good luck!

In Larsen’s skilled hands, the combination of such incompetence and a world that he believes is conspiring against him makes Geggy a raucous battle for survival, hilarious from start to finish. If ...

The BBC has commissioned a further two series of both Michael McIntyre ’s Big ​Show and Michael McIntyre ’s The Wheel. Production on the sixth series of The Wheel has just begun, with the Big ​Show ...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: Comedians Tommy Tiernan, Meera Syal and Adam Buxton take on pop star Self Esteem (aka Rebecca Taylor) in the quest to make the perfect crumpets and ...

In this stand-up clip, Kyrah Gray talks about going to therapy to become more affectionate after he boyfriend accused her of being too aggressive. The routine also covers putting her drama GCSE to use ...

But writing on Facebook today – where he has just set up a Benidorm fan page – Litten pointed out that Hewson ‘has done this most years since the show ended’. He said it was wrong to say ITV has ...

It’s not exactly the heaviest burden anyone’s had to bear, but Alex Ward has been saddled with an air of approachability. By her account, she looks as if she works in every building she’s ever been in ...

It’s very controlled, and quite charming, and draws the audience in to his good-natured stand-up. His calm demeanour can also enhance the material, making the absurd sound credible – as a silly ...