Jason Manford has revealed the reason he had to cancel shows this weekend was because he’s undergone emergency appendix surgery. The comic told how he got appendicitis while driving at 70mph on the ...

The premise could not be simpler: woman of a thousand voices Jess Robinson sings the greatest hits of Elton John in the style of various divas. Or should that be *other* divas, given the glam rock god ...

His relationship sounds pretty solid and candid, absorbing the time they spend apart gigging. Yet tensions over playing pool are blown out of all proportion, with McPherson displaying what passes for ...

Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance. The book, Laughter is the Best Medicine, is to be published in November and is described as ‘a nostalgic ...

The five acts in the running for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award have been announced. They are: Bab, Abbie Edwards, Abbie Hale, Harry Jenkins and Ryan S Lewis. All will be ...

Production company Big Finish Originals are to release six new full-cast audio sitcom pilots from up-and-coming writers. The Comedy Playhouse collection – due out in November – came as a result of an ...

Cabbage The Clown takes on the role of a cinema’s extra-large reusable Suckee cup in this set from Chortle’s Fast Fringe. The performer’s Edinburgh show, Cinemadrome, is based on her former ...

Other celebrities playing the Traitors: Live Experience event in London include Capital Breakfast’s Chris Stark, TV presenters Marvin and Rochelle Humes and Radio 2’s Scott Mills – as well as several ...

A show called House Of Life, abouve. I took a punt on a random show when I had an hour to kill. It was the campest thing I’ve ever seen with a frontman adorned in glitter from head to toe and a smoke ...

Streaming service NextUp has announced its Edinburgh Fringe line-up. The programme will run from August 12 to 25 and includes Josh Glanc, pictured, Alison Spittle, Andrew O’Neill, Diona Doherty and ...

Latitude remains the best outdoor festival for big-name live comedy, mitigating the effects of a daytime gig in a vast open-sided marquee with inevitable noise bleed with a line-up that’s just as ...

Rhod Gilbert and Patrick Monahan have both stumped up prizes for this year’s ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Organisers Nathan Cassidy and Sarah Bowles, plus Nottinghamshire youth community radio station ...