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Romesh Rangnathan is making a new travel-based series. Can’t Knock the Hustle (working title) will be coming to Sky Max and streaming service NOW in 2025. This Sky Original show takes Romesh Ranganathan’s latest arena tour, Hustle, and turns it into a real-world, funny factual documentary series.

After their run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Jonny & The Baptists (Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers) will take their new show The Happiness Index on a UK tour in 2025. This witty musical comedy will explore the connections between personal tragedy, government austerity, and mental health. Having already received rave reviews for its mix of comedy, post-modern absurdity, and raw emotional honesty, the show will feature the duo’s signature anthemic musical numbers.

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in clowns. Viggo Venn won Britain's Got Talent, Julia Masli has been acclaimed in Edinburgh, London and New York.

Hal Cruttenden is going back on tour with a show that promises to stick it to ‘The Man’, as long as ‘The Man’ doesn’t stick it back to him.

Applications are now open for Best in Class Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase 2025.The award-winning project offers eight working class comedians the opportunity to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe. Acts selected work tirelessly in the run up to the festival. They are guided through the process of running a show, from writing press releases, to marketing and tech skills. Crucially, none of the acts pay to participate and they all receive payment for the work they do.Best In Class alumni have gone on to achieve fantastic successes within their comedy careers.

Bad Tidings has got laughs, it's got heart, it's even got a Love Actually joke in it...

Daniel Sloss is to release his acclaimed show Hubris online on Saturday, 21 December. See below for details.

After making their American debut earlier this year with an event that sold out in minutes and saw fans travelling from far and wide to attend, the almighty Taskmaster Greg Davies and his diligent Assistant (and show creator) Alex Horne have announced they will return to New York to host the world premiere of the first episode of the brand-new Taskmaster season 19.

Steve Coogan has talked revealingly about his career in comedy in a new interview.

On this week’s show (20th December), Graham welcomes Wonka and Dune star Timothée Chalamet, Oscar-nominated Colman Domingo, British star Andrew Garfield, ‘Smithy’ and ‘Nessa’ themselves, James Corden and Ruth Jones, and Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey.