Jamie Demetriou has become a father for the first time – making Steve Coogan a grandfather. The Stath Lets Flats comic’s partner is Clare Cole, a chef and the only daughter of the Alan Partridge star.

Instead, Re: Creation is a companion piece to his last tour, So… Where Were We?, which traced his search for his birth mother who gave him up for adoption when he was a baby in 1970s Ireland. He calls ...

Stephen Merchant is to star in a rom-com opposite Cameron Diaz. The Office co-creator will direct the movie, which he scripted with John Butler, who previously wrote and directed on Merchant’s BBC ...

Dom Joly is going on tour to mark 25 years of Trigger Happy TV. The live show will revive characters and sketches from the hidden camera show, which originally ran on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003.

Correspondent Bob State tries to explain what’s going on in America in this segment from Broken News. And things get tricky when his co-presenter tries to remain impartial in the face of White House ...

Fatiha El-Ghorri has announced her debut stand-up show with 11 UK dates this spring The 44-year-old Hackney-born comedian, who became a breakout star on the 19th series of Taskmaster will perform ...

Jamie Demetriou appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers in the US last night. The Stath Lets Flays comic talks about playing Charli XCX’s manager in new mockumentary The Moment and a Mattel executive ...

Primetime Emmy nominee Michelle Wolf brings a brand-new stand-up show.

London’s Banana Cabaret comedy club – one of the oldest in the UK and the place where Eddie Izzard first performed stand-up – is to close after 43 years.

A tiny incongruity in the highly watchable Is This Thing On?, this moment is one of only a few passing nods that the US film makes to being based on John Bishop 's stand-up origin story.

Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Why In The Name Of Pierre Novellie? The comedian confirmed the news as the last episode in the current series just finished airing. Four more episodes will be ...

GUILDFORD: In his debut hour, Norwegian comedian Thor Stenhaug tells his story of growing up as the result of a one-night, with his mum and dad choosing not to stay together, but still bring him up ...