Generation Z seems more thoughtful than many zombie offerings, as it steers clear of too many clichés of the genre, while the young side of the cast deliver convincing performances of believable ...

HALIFAX: The town's comedy festival crowns the winner of its new act competition in a show kicking off at the Victoria Theatre at 5pm. In the running are - Louis Etienne, Kie Carson, Melanie Judson, ...

RICHARD OSMAN'S HOUSE OF GAMES: Comic Ellie White puts her general knowledge skills to the test against Diversity dancer ...

Joe Lycett has announced that he has become a father to a baby boy. However, given the comedian’s history of pranks not all his fans have taken the news at face value.’ ...

Chris McCausland had a shocker on tonight's Strictly Come Dancing, coming bottom of the Halloween week leaderboard. His samba marked a terrible reversal of fortune for the comedian, who only last week ...

Rich Wilson got into comedy after working as a barman at the Up The Creek club in Greenwich, South London. Inspired by the comedians he saw, he gave it a go himself in 2004, and has since become a ...

Winner of the 2013 BBC New Comedy Award and Amused Moose Laugh Off finalist in the same year.

Now an established circuit act, Steve Harris started comedy in 1998, when he was named North West comedian of the year as well as making the finals of both the BBC New Comedy Awards and So You Think ...

John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers play is extending its West End run for a second time. The production will now run at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue until Saturday March 1 next year.

This is the kind of thing that gets the Pulitzer panel interested. It helps that Siddiq’s life is more eventful than most. His story has love, crime, violence, religion and political upheaval, and ...

• Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life With Neil Innes: The Official Biography by Yvonne Innes was published yesterday by Nine Eight Books. Buy from Amazon, priced £17.90 – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, at ...

Elaine C Smith has established a prize for aspiring female comedy actors in Scotland. For each of the next years, a final-year drama student at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will receive a £500 ...