Elaine C Smith may sit among Scottish comedy royalty but she’s forever in danger of being upstaged by young screen newcomer Harper Blue Hamilton in the new BBC comedy short Govan Fair Queen.

Britain’s tallest pun-slinger Darren Walsh is taking his 8ft frame to embark on his first UK tour. From Comic Relief to his viral Jokes on the Street series, Darren has brought his pun improvisation ...

My favourite comedy open-mic, the Loon Under Laughter, is only two minutes from a train station, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on a Friday ...

Edinburgh Fringe venue Gilded Balloon has launched its Postcode Pals scheme for a second year, offering local residents discounted festival tickets.

My favourite bit is when I talk about the medical stuff. It’s not a big sob story, it’s how I dealt with it – finding the humour in the middle of all the worry. I’m not mocking anyone, I just talk ...

Filmed in one shot, the promo for the song Porcelain shows the comic enjoying a sausage breakfast, blissfully unaware of an argument unfolding behind him. Bayler plays the woman involved in the row, ...

Could Superman afford the best lawyers money could buy? Probably not on a newspaper reporter's salary. That's why he was appointed a public defender, at least in the mind of comedian Graham Techler.

He is surely one of the reasons the first series of LOL: Last One Laughing was such a success. Now reigning champion Bob Mortimer is set to return for the second season to defend his crown. Trade ...

Atalla revealed: ‘Chris, who I shared a bedroom with, died of it, and by the time I was about 13 or 14, I think I'd been to like seven or eight funerals of kids that were at my school. So that was ...

SHARK! CELEBRITY INFESTED WATERS: Ross Noble and Lenny Henry are among the famous names going diving with man-eating sharks on …and on the 50th anniversary of Jaws, too, Lucy Punch, Helen George, ...

CAMBRIDGE: The Comedy Garden erects its marquee in Parker's Piece, with some of the biggest names in stand-up appearing under its canvas. They include Frankie Boyle, Russell Kane, Nish Kumar, Fern ...

Step aside, PG Tips Monkey, Johnny Vegas has a new animal sidekick. The comedian this morning showed off what he calls the ‘best thing I've ever bought in my life’ – an antique, 70-year-old Thirsty ...