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.
The line-up has been announced for the next Taskmaster’s New Year Treat. Competing for Greg Davies ’s golden eyebrows in the one-off show are former England and Liverpool footballer David James, ...
Filming has finally begun on Jordan Gray ’s sitcom Transaction – more than two years after it was first announced. In the six ...
Satirical website The Onion has bought the far-right website Infowars. The new owners say they plan to turn the former hate factory into ‘a very stupid website’.
Given all the opportunities the BBC can afford, it’s no surprise that their New Comedy Award attracts the cream of emerging comedians – and the final of this year’s contest, hosted in Birmingham by ...
Stevie Martin is booking an Airbnb for a getaway… and as usual she’s having a few problems. Regular collaborator Lola-Rose Maxwell is the voice of the booking platform in this latest video. Martin’s ...
Belfast is to host the next BBC Comedy Festival, it has been announced today. The event will be a chance for producers, both established and new, to celebrate and explore comedy in the UK, and aims to ...
Kiwi comic Rhys Darby is returning to the stage with a new stand-up show, The Legend Returns. A total of 19 UK and one Irish date have been announced for the tour, which is is first in nearly a decade ...
'An AI Tommy Tiernan would be like a perfectly-cooked steak… made entirely of tofu. Technically, it *might* look the part, but it’ll lack that essential… *je ne sais quoi*. That primal scream of the ...
Johnny Vegas is reviving Ideal – as a stage show. The comic will be reprising his role as small-scale weed dealer Moz in a 20th anniversary production at the Lowry, Salford next year.
He was 15 minutes into his comedy show Undoctored at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday when an audience member shouted: ‘Medic!' And luckily there were plenty in the room, as Kay tends to attract a ...
Here’s the first look at what the cast of Outnumbered look like now – eight years after their last outing and 17 years after ...