THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE: Jessica Fostekew and Adam Rutherford explore emptiness and the mind-bending physics, maths and philosophy hidden in the void. Hugh Dennis, Ria Lina and physicists Harry Cliff ...

Paddy Young and Ania Magliano take on President Trump, racist Reform councillors and Pope Leo on Saturday Night Live UK last night.

Here’s the cold open from tonight’s Saturday Night Live UK – featuring an appearance from the comic who plays Donald Trump on the US original. The sketch is set when Prime Minister Andy Burnham ...

Paul Whitehouse has seen off a mugger near his North London home. The 68-year-old was targeted as he used a supermarket cashpoint in Islington. He had popped out to get some medication for his wife, ...

Kevin Bridges is not the first person to note that comedians’ routines are now expected to hit higher standards of morality and accuracy than politicians’ speeches. But that scrutiny shouldn’t worry ...

CK Nath has won the best show award at the Women in Comedy Festival, with Kimia Etemadi taking best newcomer. Nath took the main title even though her festival show was still a work-in-progress for ...

Channel 5 is to air a documentary celebrating Alan Carr ’s life and career in comedy. The 90-minute special, titled Alan Carr: My Best Bits & More will air on October 24 – six days before the end of ...

US authorities are investigating a collision between two trains. According to the Onion News Network, one was travelling from Chicago at 80mph, the other from Washington DC travelling at 75mph.

Comedians Justin Moorhouse, Zoe Lyons and Jason Manford are to appear in the next series of 5’s crime drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries. Other familiar comedy faces joining the series include Birds Of ...

Sir Stephen Fry will host the gala evening of silent comedy films at next year’s Slapstick Festival in Bristol, it has been announced. He will introduce a triple bill at the Beacon: Buster Keaton’s ...

Here’s a new batch of outtakes from Season 22 of Taskmaster. The series features Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conti, and Richard Ayoade as well as Taskmaster Greg Davies and assistant ...

Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s sketch show returns to BBC Two and iPlayer next Wednesday, four years after the last series. To promote it the pair were obliged to do a promotional Q&A – and it’s ...