Amy Gledhill has unofficially been named as the first contestant in the next series of Amazon’s LOL: Last One Laughing. A second run of the reality show – in which comedians try to make each other ...

Bill Burr played drums with The Pretenders during his show in London this week. The American comic invited the Brass In Pocket hitmakers to join him on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo, after his stand ...

HBO has released at trailed for Marc Maron's next stand-up special. In the teaser for Panicked, the comedian and podcaster joked that he didn't get into comedy 'to be entertaining'. Maron, whose ...

Barack Obama and Larry David are teaming up to make a sketch comedy show. The series, for HBO, will celebrate America’s 250th birthday on July 4 next year, with the broadcaster saying it will feature ...

Hospital comedy Scrubs is coming back to TV, with its original stars. Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke have all signed up to reprise their original roles as doctors JD Dorian, Christopher ...

In the second episode of Too Much, Jessica – the character loosely based on series creator Lena Dunham – upbraids a date for describing her as ‘messy’, arguing that it’s an inherently misogynistic ...

Channel 4 is to launch a dedicated digital channel for original unscripted British comedy. Hosted on YouTube, A Comedy Thing by Channel 4 will launch later this month with weekly long-form programmes ...

Comedians including Nick Mohammed, Johnny Vegas and Babatunde Aléshé are to appear in the next series of ITV1’s You Bet! The next series of the Stephen Mulhern-hosted show hits the road for challenges ...

The podcast is made by Welsh-based Little Wander, the production company behind the Machynlleth Comedy Festival, and launches tomorrow. A teaser is available here.

A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail one of Britain’s most successful comedians. It has been reported that the 35-year-old suspect, tried to extort money from the star, who cannot ...

Boarders creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor, has signed a deal with production company Studio Lambert to give them first refusal on any scripted projects he wants to develop. Taylor started on the live ...

The Irish love a good mourning, so here in her sophomore show, the Dublin-raised comedian and ‘Death Queen’ will teach audience ‘how not to be weird about loss’. It runs in the family, apparently, ...