Brace yourself! Foil Arms and Hog take the crown for filling this dentist sketch with puns, and ain’t that the tooth.

Meanwhile Peaked, the Channel 4 Comedy Blap pilot set in rural Derbyshire from double act Ada Player and Bron Waugh was named best short-form scripted show and animated CBBC sitcom Super Happy Magic ...

Comedy Knockout at East London’s Backyard Comedy Club gives everyone a minimum of two minutes, but even that can seem unduly harsh – especially at this Champion Of Champions night, when every act has ...

Dates: July 19-20 Where? Wollaton Park, Nottingham Comedy line-up: Phil Nichol, Scott Bennett, Paul McCaffrey, Kathryn Mather, Karen Bayley Music acts include: Bloc Party, Jake Bugg, Kaiser Chiefs, ...

The Cheerful Earful comedy podcast festival and the London Podcast Festival have both confirmed their returns this autumn. Cheerful Earful will be hosting 15 days of live podcasts across London, ...

Comic Relief has revealed the line-up for its live show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Rosie Jones will be hosting the one-off event and will be joined by Sally Phillips, Chloe Petts, Max Fosh, and Urooj ...

Tom Davis has announced a new tour, Spudgun. It comes after his debut tour, Underdog sold more than 70,000 tickets and was turned into a Sky special. The comic is known for his acting appearances on ...

Satellite images reveal a worrying stockpile of explosives being assembled, despite heavy US sanctions. The aerial images has sparked mounting international concerns at the amount of fireworks being ...

Broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake is turning his hand to stand-up for the first time, The former host of Radio 1’s weekend breakfast show and now presenter of Radio 5’s Headliners interview show is making ...

It's our question-writer Hayden Parker's 50th birthday this week, so in a rare burst of self-indulgence this week's multiple-choice trivia quiz is entirely themed around birthdays. Good luck!

The back fence to the ‘Sound Bath Garden’ takes the shape of the ‘Alan Partridge’ name in sound wave form, while all metalwork throughout the garden is 'finished in the same gold used on Subaru GC8 ...

Harry Hill says he’d love TV Burp to return – but with someone new at the helm. The comedian hosted the ITV show for a decade from 2002, but quit after finding the workload too demanding. In a Q&A ...