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.

We all know as performers that no matter how good, original, and groundbreaking your show is, it doesn't matter if no one comes to see it. That's why your poster and marketing materials are so ...

Katherine Parkinson is to guest host Have I Got News For You for the first time. The IT Crowd and Rivals star will host episode three of the current series on Friday Apri 18.

• My Previous Life In Comedy by Johnny Ball, is published by The Book Guild, is available from Amazon priced £10.99 in paperback and £5.99 on Kindle – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, which supports ...

At the heart of the New Zealander’s latest show is an unflattering portrait of the sort of ‘dumb’ and unemotional parents that produced not one but three comedians, with Guy’s siblings Paul and Maria ...

While Fresh New Worries doesn’t have the powerful, life-affirming impact of her breakout show, Cosgriff remains a beacon of warm positivity, offering another sweetly upbeat show – even when the topic ...

Yes, Coombs Marr is among the sizeable ranks of comics with the condition. And yes, it most definitely defines her scattergun style, a freeflowing stream of stories and ideas prone to wild digressions ...

Simon Munnery – ‘one of the all-time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) – is back on tour in 2025 Expect all your classic Munnery one-liners, sketches and anecdotes from the British Comedy Award ...

Sue Perkins has announced her first full-length stand-up show in nearly 20 years. The former Bake-Off host and Taskmaster contestant will be playing more than 40 British cities in the first quarter of ...

Rowdy behaviour marred comedy gigs by Paul Chowdhry and John Bishop this weekend. Police were called to Chowdhry’s show at the Cliffs Pavilion in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex on Saturday when a fight broke ...

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 celebrate 50 years of The Good ...

Jimmy Carr says a big difference between him and Peter Kay is that when he ejects people from his shows, ‘they get kicked out for a reason’. His comments come after the Car Share comic hit the ...