Prop comic Spencer Jones was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2019 and 2017. His stage alter-ego is called Herbert Clunkerdunk (originally just The Herbert) and has made a series of BBC ...

Glenn Moore was nominated for best show at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. As a newcomer he was runner-up in the 2011 Chortle Student Comedy Award, and finalist in So You Think You're Funny 2012 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Michael Odewale says he covers 'important issues such as racism, politics and pigeons' in his comedy. He has been performing since around 2014, starting while at university, and was finalist in both ...