Chris McCausland turned down the chance to make a documentary series about how he learned to dance despite being blind. The comedian has revealed how he rejected the BBC’s advances about making a ...

The Alex Horne challenge show won the comedy entertainment category, where it was nominated alongside the TV version of Radio 4’s mash-up satirical show The Skewer. Rob & Romesh Vs, Germany’s Die ...

The stage version of Fawlty Towers is to tour the UK for 10 months from next September. Producers have announced a 36-city tour of the show – which merges three of the TV episodes and gives a new ...

The author of the winning joke, Carlsen Stanton aged, 48, from Birmingham, received the top prize of £1,500 towards a holiday, a festive hamper and a box of bespoke U&Gold Christmas Crackers ...

A comedian who goes by the name Welsh Jesus has told how he had a show cancelled on religious grounds. Gareth Hunt, was due to perform on a mixed-bill night at the Heolgerrig Social Club in his home ...

Janey Godley's funeral is just about to start at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow. The service is being steamed and can be ...

Nick Mohammed’s character Mr Swallow embodies some of the same contradictions as Tommy Cooper. His giddy, erratic demeanour ...

Much of the footage was long thought lost, but an internal catalogue audit of the ITV archves found that the episodes were intact but had all been logged as Episode 2. The films were cleaned and ...

Mark Steel tells the story of discovering his birth family on today’s Desert Island Discs, describing it as ‘like something out of Netflix’. The comedian – who was given the all-clear from his throat ...

The BBC is to say farewell to Inside No 9 with an hour-long documentary telling the story of the inventive anthology series.

A giant stained-glassed inspired artwork dedicated to The Vicar of Dibley was unveiled yesterday to celebrate the 30th ...

Pinotphile follows the runaway success of Joanne’s smash hit The Prosecco Express. Since then, McNally has been keeping herself busy by ruining men's lives (and her own) - still single, still ...