It’s been a huge year for Rosco McClelland, as he acknowledges from the start. He won the Billy Connolly spirit of Glasgow award and was named best international act at the New Zealand comedy festival ...

The art of keeping formats simple is an important one, and The Comedy Arcade understands this. A tiny bingo ball dispenser sits on stage. As numbers are called by host Vix Leyton, each number ...

George and Mildred star Norman Eshley has died at the age of 80. He played a snobbish right-wing estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile who live next door to Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce’s characters in the ...

Glasgow comedian Kim Blythe has teamed up with cult brewery Vault City to create a beer to tie in with her Edinburgh Fringe show. The Canned Laugher beer is a blueberry, honeyberry and limoncello ...

Liam Tulley’s a no-frills comedian, dressed in black jeans and T-shirt and launching straight into his routine about his reluctance to get up in the morning with not even a perfunctory ‘how’s it going ...

Ruth Jones is too reunite the cast of her Sky sitcom Stella for a one-off live event. The comedy, set in the fictional South Wales valleys town of Pontyberry, ran for 58 episodes on Sky One from 2012 ...

James Trickey talks about being half-English, half-Cambodian in this stand-up clip from Chortle Fast Fringe. But the comedian complains he has none of the benefits of being mixed-race, with his mum ...

Daisy May Cooper has permanently stepped down from Never Mind The Buzzcocks, with Sophie Willan taking over as team captain. The Alma’s Not Normal star has previously stood in for the This Country ...

Caitriona Dowden’s sophomore Fringe offering is a marginally lower-concept prospect than last year’s debut, in which she used her encyclopaedic knowledge of medieval religion to try to secure herself ...

Don't be fooled by the title of Hasan Al-Habib’s debut hour, Death To The West (Midlands). He’s very much an outwardly proud Brummie.

Monty Python are to be commemorated in a new series of stamps. Royal Mail today announced that a set of ten designs will feature a montage of scenes and cut-out illustrations to capture the troupe’s ...