John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers play is extending its West End run for a second time. The production will now run at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue until Saturday March 1 next year.

This is the kind of thing that gets the Pulitzer panel interested. It helps that Siddiq’s life is more eventful than most. His story has love, crime, violence, religion and political upheaval, and ...

Elaine C Smith has established a prize for aspiring female comedy actors in Scotland. For each of the next years, a final-year drama student at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will receive a £500 ...

• Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life With Neil Innes: The Official Biography by Yvonne Innes was published yesterday by Nine Eight Books. Buy from Amazon, priced £17.90 – or from uk.bookshop.org, below, at ...

Ardal O’Hanlon is heading back out on the road, six years after launching his last stand-up tour, The Father Ted and Taskmaster star will be touring Not Himself from September next year, reflecting on ...

Sacha Baron Cohen revived Ali G and Borat last night – as he showed how his most famous creations might moderate a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. He dropped into the ...

But it turned out the group’s High Priest and Priestess were just randy swingers who wanted her to join their sex sessions. She said the truth dawned on her when she had a Zoom interview with the ...

Taking the audience on a thought-provoking journey following an alarming experience at the supermarket, Ardal O'Hanlon examines his identity as a man and a comedian, reflecting on everything from his ...

Jason Manford might have built his career on being an ordinary, relatable bloke – but there’s one thing that sets him apart from his mates: he hates beer. It’s not that he’s a teetotaller, but he ...

Michael McIntyre is recording his latest tour for BBC One to celebrate his 25 years as a stand-up. His show Macnificent will be taped at the London Palladium next month and will air as a 55-minute ...

Here’s what it’s like when your friends are obsessed with America, according to Foil Arm and Hog. In the sketch Sean 'Foil' Finegan gets upset with Conor 'Arms' McKenna and Sean 'Hog' Flanagan ...

Johnny Vegas believes his house is haunted - but by a ‘welcoming’ ghost. Speaking at the launch of Channel 4’s new zombie show Generation X last night the comic admitted: ‘Yeah, I have a ghost in the ...