Rachel Fairburn started doing stand up in January 2007, and was a finalist in both the Funny Women and City Life North-West Comedian Of The Year competitions the following year.

Test your comedy knowledge of 2024 with today's edition of our Tuesday trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Sir Stephen, 67, has long links to the King – who once spent New Year’s Eve at the Blackadder actor’s Norfolk home when he was still married to Diana. London mayor Sadiq Khan and football manager ...

In May, it was revealed that Andy Zaltzman, Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones would be trying to impress Greg Davies at challenges set by show creator Alex Horne. It’s the first of ...

London’s West End Comedy Club has closed after three and a half years. The venue had its final show on December 19, as its venue, the Covent Garden Social Club, has shut down as the landlord plans to ...

There’s no narrative or real theme to his somewhat disjointed ideas, but an unexpectedly melancholy makes itself known in the first half, as the bucolic countryside image projected as his backdrop ...

Here’s Larry Dean recalling his first ever gig – and how it didn’t go well. The comic recalls: ‘I tried to be as offensive as ...

Nudity usually ensures memorability, and Garry Starr – the alter-ego of Aussie clown Damien Warren-Smith – performed his entire show in the buff, save for save for a tailcoat, flippers and Elizabethan ...

While the weary but loving chemistry between Dennis and Skinner – who became a real-life couple since the last Christmas special – is very appealing, something is undoubtedly missing from the show now ...

Having successfully attempted to escape from a locked tank of water, and less successfully managed to vanish an elephant, Yorkshire pudding Mr. Swallow returns this year with a musical retelling of ...

Charlie Brooker says he has considered making a Black Mirror / Philomena Cunk crossover. The creator of both shows admitted he had the idea of an episode in which the dimwitted talking head, as played ...

The Gavin and Stacey finale has - unsurprisingly – won the Christmas Day ratings battle, attracting an average of 12.3 million viewers, It was the largest Christmas Day audience in 14 years. Overnight ...