James Trickey talks about being half-English, half-Cambodian in this stand-up clip from Chortle Fast Fringe. But the comedian complains he has none of the benefits of being mixed-race, with his mum ...

George and Mildred star Norman Eshley has died at the age of 80. He played a snobbish right-wing estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile who live next door to Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce’s characters in the ...

Ruth Jones is too reunite the cast of her Sky sitcom Stella for a one-off live event. The comedy, set in the fictional South Wales valleys town of Pontyberry, ran for 58 episodes on Sky One from 2012 ...

Daisy May Cooper has permanently stepped down from Never Mind The Buzzcocks, with Sophie Willan taking over as team captain. The Alma’s Not Normal star has previously stood in for the This Country ...

Monty Python are to be commemorated in a new series of stamps. Royal Mail today announced that a set of ten designs will feature a montage of scenes and cut-out illustrations to capture the troupe’s ...

Reece Shearsmith, Meera Syal and Lolly Adefope have joined the cast of Apple TV’s forthcoming series Prodigies. The show has been created and written by Will Sharpe, as recently seen in White Lotus ...

Comedian Robin Morgan has landed a regular presenting slot on BBC Radio Wales. The stand-up will be on air for three hours on Sundays from midday, starting in September.

To demonstrate a comedy-writer’s job is safe from AI, Keen gets ChatGPT to write a routine on the spot and in the style of John Bishop. Of course, it’s not great – though I’ve seen human open spots ...

David Gold, Royal Mail’s director of external affairs and policy said: ‘Monty Python left an indelible mark on global comedy, while remaining unmistakably British at its core.

And so it is in Broad Strokes, with Cohen’s witty storytelling and aloof one-liners perfectly married to her superstar performance to produce an impressive and funny piece of work.

Yes, in its early moments the wittily-titled Let Me Get This Off My Chest can sometimes feel like a TED Talk, but a very good, very funny one, artfully structured with the empowering message of ...

Theo Mason Wood calls his show ‘genre-defying’. A less generous observer – OK, me – would call it a mess, with the Berlin-based comedian throwing all manner of styles at the wall, but finding few that ...