The Lying Game: The comics must each tell an anecdote about the same randomly selected topic. However, while five of them are telling a true story, two of them are lying through their teeth. Their ...

Britain's first female Chancellor was last year told it would cost £8,000 to take out the offending item – and that it was once used by Winston Churchill – so it has remained in place. Treasury ...

The BBC has released a trailer for the third series of Here We Go ahead of its launch next Friday. It shows the family holidaying in Malta, dad Paul (Jim Howick) in his new role as police constable, ...

Anu Vaidyanathan has had a varied career: engineer, first Asian woman to complete Ultraman Canada (a 10k swim, 420k bike ride and 84.4k run), screenwriter and comedian. She’s back at the Fringe with a ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up.

A major new documentary about Joan Rivers will tap into hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings. Makers of the feature-length film have been given unprecedented access to the ...

Double, once dubbed by Stewart Lee as 'the Charles Darwin of alternative comedy’, runs a comedy module at the University Of Kent and has written books on the topic including Getting The Joke and Stand ...

Two Doors Down is to return with a new Christmas special, the BBC has announced today. The new episode will come two years since the last series aired and will revolve around the residents of Latimer ...

Comedian Ali Brice has been named this year’s top bingo comedy caller by London club Dabbers. The stand-up performed as his gameshow enthusiast alter-ego Eric Meat in the competition, and wins a ...