Former Late Late Show bandleader Reggie Watts is to headline the Latitude and Deer Shed festivals, it has been announced today The improvising musical comedian joins Greg Davies and Bridget Christie ...

Former Late Late Show bandleader Reggie Watts is to be the third comedy headliner at this year’s Latitude Festival, it has been announced today. The improvising musical comedian joins Greg Davies and ...

Madonna has performed a surprise stand-up gig in New York. The superstar went to the Comedy Cellar on Saturday, accompanied by Amy Schumer, and delivered a set that reportedly ran for 30 minutes, ...

American stand-up Ken Flores has died aged 28 while on tour. A statement posted on his Instagram page said simply: ‘It is with great sadness that we confirm the untimely passing of our friend, brother ...

Comedians Jamali Maddix, Tommy Tiernan , Adam Buxton, Phil Wang, Sophie Willan and Chris and Rosie Ramsey are among the stars taking part in the celebrity version of Bake Off this year.

• Inside No 9 Stage/Fright runs at Wydham's Theatre, London, until April 5. All pictures © Marc Brenner ...

Matt Lucas and David Walliams have reunited to create a new podcast. The Little Britain creators will next week launch Making A Scene, in which the interview fellow comedians and other famous friends ...

Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell has certainly got a reputation for the dark arts of twisting reality to his ends. And that seems to extend to his parenting skills, too, as his comedian ...

Ria Lina, the leading Filipina comedian in British stand-up realised last year that she wasn’t just awake, she was ready to rebel. Expect a relentless stream of hilarity as Ria explores the state of ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week we celebrate Olivia Colman's 51st ...

It already had a bad reputation, thanks largely to John John Betjeman’s savage 1937 lines ‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now’. But Ricky Gervais has been accused of ...

Comedian Leigh Francis says he doesn’t regret anything he has done in the past but concedes that he would ‘probably change’ some things, as he looks back on some of his past controversies.