Latitude remains the best outdoor festival for big-name live comedy, mitigating the effects of a daytime gig in a vast open-sided marquee with inevitable noise bleed with a line-up that’s just as ...

Madeleine Brettingham has won the inaugural West End New Woman Comedian of the Year title. She took the £100 prize after seeing off competition from around 100 other entrants.

Eddie Murphy is to play hapless Inspector Clouseau in a new Pink Panther movie. The 64-year-old comic confirmed that he would be stepping into the character made famous by Peter Sellers.

Here’s Edinburgh-bound stand-up Tiff Stevenson performing an extract from her festival show Post-Coital. The comic talks about entering middle-age, losing weight and what the dating pool will be like ...

Comedian Cerys Nelmes is facing up to three years in a Turkish prison on shoplifting charges. The stand-up said she accidentally walked out of a Zara store in Istanbul with clothes before realising ...

Chortle readers believe Edinburgh Fringe venues were wrong to cancel Jewish comedian Philip Simon by a margin of three to one.

The League Of Gentlemen have reunited for a new Radio 4 comedy-drama. Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have all lent their voices to writer Jeremy Dyson ’s new project, called High ...

Obviously, Edinburgh is the biggest arts festival in the world, a uniquely magical place where you can walk into the back of a pub and see shows that will change how you think and feel about the world ...

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