Paul Tonkinson is writing a book about defying ageing by running an ultra-marathon across the Sahara Desert. The 56-year-old comedian ran 'the toughest foot race on Earth’ – the week-long, 155-mile ...

Johnny Vegas and Lucy Beaumont are to star in a new production of the comic play Road. Vegas – who is currently starring a stage version of the sitcom Ideal –will play the narrator Scullery, a role ...

London comedy club Always Be Comedy is opening a new weekly night at The Trafalgar in Chelsea – the first new pub to be built on the King's Road in 100 years.

Sara Pascoe and Julia Raeside are among the authors nominated for this year’s Comedy Women in Print awards. Books about comedy itself feature prominently in the shortlists inclu ...

Elf Lyons has won this year’s Sky Arts award for comedy. The comic was honoured for her ‘genre-defying’ show Horses, ahead of fellow nominees Jen Brister for her body of work and Sarah Keyworth for My ...

Test your knowledge of Fawlty Towers as it celebrates its 50th anniversary on Friday. Our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz is compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker ...

And in this new production, under the assured direction of Patrick Marber, the performances sizzle with euphorically outrageous vim, doing fine service to the 99-year-old’s tribute to the ...

Little Woodchucks: Offerman Workshop’s Guide To Tools And Tomfoolery is published in the UK on October 16 and is a genuine guide to 12 family-friendly woodworking projects such as carved twig animals, ...

Rob Brydon is to host a new prime-time ITV quiz show called The Floor. The programme is an adaptation of a Dutch TV format, based around a giant LED floor with 81 squares, each representing the ...

I liked maths because it was the only subject where you’d ever get told if you're right or wrong. I have to say, I hated school. I took it far too seriously and I wish I'd been naughtier. Waterloo ...

Barry from Watford – the 92-year-old character who was a staple of Steve Wright’s Radio 2 show for a decade – is going out on his first tour. The alter-ego of Alex Lowe, the comedian who also performs ...

Broadway Baby was the most high-profile site to have reviewed The Dark Room, giving it four stars, with fives from Clownster, Bruce On The Fringe, Get The Chance, One4Review, North West End UK and ...