Camp comedian Craig Hill had hs first public success at the age of ten when he won a talent contest in his native East Kilbride, impersonating Cleo Laine. He never looked back, going on to enter dance ...

Scottish comedy legend Stanley Baxter has died at the age of 99.

Alex Horne and his band are partway through a marathon session singing a single song for 24 hours song. And the track he chose? How Long, the 1974 hit from the English band Ace, with its apt refrain: ...

He created a global comedy icon that has netted him millions, but Rowan Atkinson says he got Mr Bean banned in Italy so he could still enjoy his holidays there.

Hugh Laurie has been cast opposite Amy Poehler in a new comedy set in an archaeological dig in Greece. The series, for US platform Peacock, is called Dgi and reunites Poehler with Parks and Recreation ...

Sky is to air the second season of Ted, the prequel to the films about a talking bear. The series will land on Sky and streaming service Now in March, two years after the first episodes aired, the ...

Phil Wang is to take over from Ed Gamble on BBC Two’s Great British Menu. Gamble – who co-hosts the Off Menu podcast with James Acaster – is stepping down as judde after four series ...

Channel 4 has ordered a second series of Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping. It comes after the first series came the broadcaster’s biggest comedy launch since Derry Girls in 2018, with 2.3million ...

Bath Mat – the title seems meaningless – is a redux of his Edinburgh show Soppy Stern that introduced us to his parents and other family members. Wisely, I think, much of the biographical details have ...

The skit was written, directed and animated by Victor Hampson, who stars alongside Annabella Forbes.

Explaining the incident, Dick said he sat down next to a ‘guy, about my age, I felt for him… he was depressed and he was on the sidewalk and I went, "I’ll sit with you". ‘And then he whipped out – ...