Here are Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders. Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha and Jane Horrocks as they reunite for a new retrospective of the classic sitcom. The Gold channel is making a two-hour tribute ...

Sian Clifford - best known for playing Fleabag’s sister Claire – is to from a new Woman’s Hour parody on Radio 4. She has been cast in the four-part series Time Of The Week, co-created by character ...

Jerry Seinfeld has been confronted with a pro-Palestinian heckler at his show in Sydney. The comic's set was interrupted by ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's theme is the seaside. Good luck! We ...

Comedy podcast festival Cheerful Earful is to return to London from October 12 to 20. Now in its third year, the festival will feature more than 30 live shows in venues including the Clapham Grand and ...

Colin from Portsmouth is terrified of a Labour supermajority. Calling into to a radio phone-in he lists every policy Kier Starmer's mob are sure to enact, with chilling consequences. Though it's not ...

The team behind the sitcom Ghosts have written a new book going behind the scenes of their hit show. Ghosts: Brought to Life – The Making of a Classic will be published by Bloomsbury on October 24. It ...

Eric Idle is going on a US comedy tour this autumn, entitled Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Live! The show will reportedly feature ‘never-before-seen sketches, original songs, jokes, the ...

Count Binface – who’s standing against Rishi Sunak in the general election – is to go on a comedy tour once the campaign is over. The political prankster has announced 16 dates in September and ...

Jon Holmes has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. The former Now Show regular turned creator of radio comedies including The Skewer is now launching a Radio 4 series and podcast ...

Sky has ordered a seventh series of Brassic – before the sixth has even aired. Work will start on the new season this autumn, with the sixth run due to air on Sky Max at some point later this year.

The Lost TV Episodes tour marks 100 years of Hancock – who was born on May 12, 1924 – and 70 years of his show, first broadcaster on the radio on November 2, 1954. It ran for 107 episodes on the BBC ...