• Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life With Neil Innes: The Official Biography by Yvonne Innes was published yesterday by Nine Eight Books. Buy from Amazon, priced £17.90 – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, at ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is heading back out on the road, six years after launching his last stand-up tour, The Father Ted and Taskmaster star will be touring Not Himself from September next year, reflecting on ...

John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers play is extending its West End run for a second time. The production will now run at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue until Saturday March 1 next year.

Elaine C Smith has established a prize for aspiring female comedy actors in Scotland. For each of the next years, a final-year drama student at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will receive a £500 ...

This is the kind of thing that gets the Pulitzer panel interested. It helps that Siddiq’s life is more eventful than most. His story has love, crime, violence, religion and political upheaval, and ...

Sacha Baron Cohen revived Ali G and Borat last night – as he showed how his most famous creations might moderate a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. He dropped into the ...

But it turned out the group’s High Priest and Priestess were just randy swingers who wanted her to join their sex sessions. She said the truth dawned on her when she had a Zoom interview with the ...

Written by Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli – who play mum Nic and her untrustworthy best friend Jen, both abboice – the ...

Filming has begun on the fifth and final series of Gus Khan’s Man Like Mobeen. The BBC has released the first two images of ...

The Office is getting a Mexican remake, La Oficina. Hot on the heels of the Australian version, starring Felicity Ward, Amazon’s Prime Video is to embark on the new version that will only be available ...

Lindsey Santoro and Dan Tiernan are recording Radio 4 stand-up shows in December. The Lively Life Of Lindsey Santoto will be taped in the Glee Club in her Birmingham hometown on December 4, and will ...

James will provide clues on social media as to which shop he’s placed the Live Humour! DVD and has generously agreed to match the proceeds of the sale in a donation to the charity shop. For an easier ...