1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (739+ words) Chris Cantrill just won the ‘Oscars of live comedy’ for his Edinburgh Fringe show Rewildling, and he’s spending the £10,000 prize money on a new chimney. (He’d already booked the holiday, don’t worry.) ‘More of it than you would think is…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1309+ words) Saturday Night Live UK is, for want of a better word, enormous. Debuting earlier this year after much fanfare — but also a fair amount of doubt and cynicism — its cast of actors and comedians have proved themselves to be exactly…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (836+ words) Andrew Scott has outdone his famous Fleabag ‘kneel’ scene with six words we suspect Channel 4 didn’t expect to become its next great marketing slogan. The Fleabag and All of Us Strangers star, 49, appears in the trailer for upcoming comedy It…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (471+ words) Taskmaster kicked off its 22nd series this week, and fans already know who they want to walk away with Greg Davies’ head. Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conti, and Richard Ayoade are the latest batch of comedians tasked by…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (983+ words) ‘No, thank you for talking to me,’ says a beaming Phil Ellis. It’s impossible not to match Phil’s bounce in our interview, with his contagious grins and chortles. This energy – not to mention his natural funny bones – is what’s sailed…...