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 ...

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 ...

With no major trauma of his own to draw on for material, apart from the drag of getting older, this show sees Ardal turn his gaze outwards at the joys and follies of contemporary life, with no current ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is heading back out on the road, six years after launching his last stand-up tour, The Father Ted and Taskmaster star will be touring Not Himself from September next year, reflecting on ...

Sacha Baron Cohen revived Ali G and Borat last night – as he showed how his most famous creations might moderate a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. He dropped into the ...