John Cleese‘s Channel 4 show about cancel culture has apparently ceased to be. Industry website Deadline has reported that the show, first announced in 2021 has been dropped.

Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the best comedy he's been watching in London this past fortnight... With the Fringe somehow only three months away, I’m starting to see a handful of previews ...

Last year, Guy Montgomery was playing to around 80 people at a time; this year, his nightly audience tops 1,000.

Ivo Graham has written his first book, exploring his 'professional meltdowns’ and ‘general bedlam of his life’. Yardsticks For Failure will be published in September and is described as ‘a gleeful ...

Kanan Gill does not need to be playing to 100 or so people a night in Melbourne. He’s got Netflix and Amazon specials to his name, a sizeable social media following and has just published his first ...

Two vikings unlucky in love nervously decide to make love not war in this new dating programme… First Dates of History is a new strand from the Get Pulped comedy YouTube channel which reveals a new ...

Japanese comic Takashi Wakasugi has been living in Australia for five years and likes what he sees – even if he doesn’t always fully understand it. His desire to be more Aussie gives his comments on ...

Nath Valvo’s shows are stand-up’s equivalent of the Christmas round-robin letter from a friend you’ve almost lost touch with – a welcome, chatty catch-up on all that’s happened to them and their ...

Chloe Petts is to make her Have I Got News for You debut next month. The comedian, who is currently at Melbourne for the international comedy festival, will be on Ian Hislop's team on the May 3 ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is to appear in the next series of We Are Lady Parts. The education activist – who ...

American stand-up Jim Gaffigan is diversifying away from comedy to launch his first bourbon, Fathertime. The new whisky was created from scratch 'with no corporate or investor backing', with Gaffigan ...

Women are better at comedy after having children, Sara Pascoe has claimed. The mother of two says every female stand-up she knows got better after becoming a parent because it made them re-evaluate ...