‘And it really pisses me off really, to be honest.’ • Sir Tony’s episode of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day is out today. While Sir Tony will be touring An Evening with Sir Tony Robinson – From ...

Amy Mason recalls the time she got hacked – with the crooks bizarrely using her details to order a consignment of sex toys to her Bristol house. And that left her with the dilemma of what to do with ...

Gearóid is back at the Fringe for a two-week work in progress of his new show. He's spent four months learning to dance and now needs to earn proper money to support his cat's lavish medical needs. As ...

Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times. And that’s because she’s already lived ...

MPs are officially calling on the government to recognise live comedy as an art form in its own right. The chair of the cross-party culture committee in the Commons has written to Arts Minister Chris ...

It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it. He grumbles at the start that ‘you can’t just do jokes in the Fringe’ in ...

Here’s the video for Adam Buxton’s new song Doing It Wrong, about fears that any attempts to be good, get healthy or bring up children are inadequate. The track comes from the comedian’s new album ...

The top line of Pedro Leandro’s blurb is that he’s ‘a comedian who has famously been described as "magnetic" by the Guardian’.

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Jimmy Carr’s wealth grew by more than £3million last year, Companies House accounts reveal. His firm R&I Futures Limited, saw its balance sheet jump from £5.2million to £8.3million in the 12 months to ...

Lauren Pattison and Tom Machell are making a second series of their Radio 4 sitcom Tom and Lauren Are Going OOT! Julian Clary returns as their neighbour Neil with comic Louise Young also back as ...

I get my fill when I do shows abroad. I get to feel what it’s like to speak with no red lines in the air. To try out the jokes that wouldn’t see the light of day back home, and see who I am when ...