Red Richardson fronts a new advertising campaign for Dr Squatch grooming products. In the adverts – entitled Britain, We Stink – the comic plays an Anchorman-style newsreader getting frustrated with ...

Ashley Storrie and Richard Gadd are both up for an extra Bafta Scotland award it was announced today.

Channel 4 has released the trailer for Generation Z, its forthcoming horror satire about teenagers fighting a horde of flesh-eating baby boomers. Written and directed by Ben Wheatley – whose credits ...

Nevertheless, the kudos of joining the ranks of Celya AB and Josh Pugh in being a winner of the Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent award is certainly worth having, with five hopefuls competing ...

Common frog calls bingo is OUT; obscure saints bingo is IN. There’s a séance in which audience members control taps, lamps and blenders, a multiplayer alphabet-based version of Guitar Hero, and a very ...

Miranda Hart has been getting a lot of headlines this week for her memoir, revealing the illness that left her housebound and that she had finally found love and got married at 51. But she wonders if ...

Tim Key, Alex Edelman and Black Ops star Gbemisola Ikumelo have joined the new US mockmentary follow-up to The Office.

They are darlings of alternative comedy, but Adam Riches and John Kearns are to adopt the personas of mainstream musical entertainers Michael Ball and Alfie Boe for a new festive show. The Cult Comics ...

Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel are reuniting for a TV series in which they cycle across France. The Channel 4 show is the second programme to feature two male comedy stars who emerged in the 1990s to ...

A museum dedicated to Last Of The Summer Wine has gone on sale – for just £19,950. The only exhibition to the world's longest ...

Eshaan Akbar has been accused of mocking the victims of the October 7 terror attack as he drew attention to the civilian victims of Israel’s military response.

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