Comedy and science fiction are notoriously difficult genres to combine. And yet Time Travel Is Dangerous pulls it off, with this modestly produced film a delightful British curio that extracts maximum ...

London’s Seven Dials Playhouse is hoping to set up a sketch comedy collective along the likes of The Groundlings. The original was set up as an improv group in Los Angeles in 1974 and helped launch ...

Ricky Gervais has had to abandon his plans to build a £5 million mansion on the banks of the Thames over concerns about flooding. The comedian wanted to build a four-bedroom £5 million neo-classical ...

The news comes just days after she scooped three Royal Television Society awards for the same show. Nominated alongside her are Kate O’Flynn for Everyone Else Burns, Lolly Adefope for The Franchise, ...

Ian Smith will make his debut on Have I Got News For You next month. The comic will appear on the second episode of the 70th series, which will air on April 17. He has appeared 20 times on The News ...

Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis are taking their podcast The Wolf and Owl on tour – leading a raft of live comedy shows going on sale today. The pair will perform ten nights this autumn, starting at ...

» Watch Ken Dodd: A Legacy Of Happiness on iPlayer. Also available is Dodd’s in-depth 1996 Face-To-Face interview with Jeremy ...

As Teenage Cancer Trust ambassador Romesh Ranganathan joked in his headlining set: ‘This is not my best shit, you have to see me on tour for that. These are some half-assed ideas…’ But for others a ...

Bob Dylan, Ernest Hemingway and Dr Seuss and give vital evidence in a murder trial in this sketch from The Noise Next Door. An eloquent First World War soldiers, Roman gladiator and Californian gold ...

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival got off to a rocky start after its opening night gala was abandoned mid-show because of a medical emergency. The Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow at ...

Iain Stirling is to host a new BBC show to find Britain’s best sand sculptors. Production on Race Against The Tide – an adaptation of a Canadian format – will take place in Scotland this May, and ...

Adam Buxton, Stewart Lee and Grace Campbell will be playing this year’s End Of The Road festival, it has been announced. The 19th edition of the alternative festival will take place from August 28 to ...