So that felt like I’d exorcised the ghost and then I thought I'd come back to Alan, I feel like he's my friend. It's like living with a friend who gets on my nerves, then once you move away you become ...

Here are some of the jokes Michelle Wolf would have told if she had played the Riyadh Comedy Festival. The American comedian, now based in Spain, said she was asked to go the event and considered it – ...

Lest you be in any doubt of the queer coding long assumed to lie beneath Oscar Wilde’s comedy of secret alternate lives, the National Theatre production of The Importance Of Being Earnest now recast ...

Romesh Ranganathan is headlining a last-minute benefit to raise money for Unicef’s work in Sudan. The newly announced gig at the Hackney Empire in East London next Wednesday will also feature ...

Future Publishing’s Comedy Review launched in March 1996, edited by Andy Lowe. Danny Wallace, its staff writer, said: ‘Future was launching a football and a film magazine, and they said "What about ...

Created by Lynn and Antony Jay, Yes Minister ran for three three seven-episode series, on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988, both starring ...

Tracey Ullman has joined the cast of Ted Lasso. The comedian disclosed that she was shooting the football comedy in an interview with Woman's Hour on Radio 4 yesterday. But she didn't reveal anything ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. This week's questions are all about pubs. Good luck!

Rob Beckett's wife Lou has landed a book deal. The former teacher – who regularly features on the Parenting Hell podcast with her husband and fellow comic Josh Widdicombe – is writing a ‘candid, ...

I’d give them the same advice my tutor gave me: ‘If you make a film based in your flat, you and Scorsese can technically make the same film. However, if you choose to make an action film, the fact ...

Nabil Abdulrashid has performed at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle can reveal. The comedian has not been listed as performing and has not mentioned his trip to the Saudi capital on ...

Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen sing about all the holes in the human body in this clip from their movie Sunlight. As Chortle reported yesterday, the film will be in selected cinemas from October 17 – ...