The comic claims the pinky was the best finger to lose, admitting that they ‘are not a professional pianist by any means’ and they have not had to alter any of the songs in their show.

Studiocanal is next week releasing the 1960 crime caper Two Way Stretch – co-starring Bernard Cribbins and Lionel Jeffries – and 1963’s Heaven’s Above!, a social satire about an honest priest whose ...

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 ...

Ruth Jones and James Corden have announced an ‘in conversation’ with event about Gavin & Stacey. The gig at the London Palladium on Monday October 6 coincides with the launch of their book When Gavin ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Two comedians have had their Edinburgh Fringe shows cancelled because they are Jewish. Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon were told they could no long perform at the Whistlebinkies Free Fringe venue ...

Here's Ali Brice performing an extract from his Edinburgh show Eric Meat Gets The Chop at Chortle's Fast Fringe in London earlier this moth. Or at least he tries to, after getting into a conversation ...