Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

Here’s the first look at what the cast of Outnumbered look like now – eight years after their last outing and 17 years after ...

Paul Hilleard has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award. He was crowned at a final at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham that was broadcast on BBC One tonight. ‘Sound, innit? Nice,’ he said after ...

Piff the Magic Dragon’s canine companion Mr Piffles has died just shy of his 17th birthday. The Flamingo in Las Vegas, where ...

Never seen before images from the personal archive of the late Terry Jones are to be exhibited in his Colwyn Bay birthplace. News of the show comes as a crowdfunder to erect a statue of the Monty ...

Timothy West has died at the age of 90 after a long career spanning great classic dramas to countless comedy roles.

Sophie Willan has signed a first-look deal with Expectation, the production company behind her hit BBC sitcom Alma’s Not Normal. It will mean the programme-makers have the first refusal on both ...

James Acaster has landed his first HBO comedy special, with Hecklers Welcome. The American streaming giant will air the show on November 23, as recorded at the Royal & Derngate Theatre in Northampton, ...

Harriet Kemsley has taken over as host of the podcast Desert Island Dicks. In a reversal of the Radio 4 format, the show asks its guests to choose the people and things they’d least like to be ...

Like Christmas, it seems like preparation for Edinburgh Fringe gets earlier each year. And comic Will Mars has accelerated that process even more this time around – by announcing the first show of ...

The finalists have been announced for this year’s Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year competition. The acts competing for the title are: Abbie Edwards, Eli Hart, Gabrielle MacPherson, ...