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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...