The former Downing Street spin doctor Alastair Campbell is to make his debut as a host on satirical panel show Have I Got News For You.

This is a critical year for BBC comedy, when it will finally seek to address previous failings in giving a television platform to the funniest women in Britain.

Miranda Hart is set to consolidate her position as one of the biggest comedy stars in Britain after scooping four nominations at the British Comedy Awards.

After recent dip Frenchman is back to his belting best (just don't mention his Muhammad Ali resemblance)

After playing everyone’s favourite foul-mouthed spin doctor in The Thick of It, Peter Capaldi was surely destined for Hollywood. But as the actor tells Gerard Gilbert, he’s no Hugh Laurie...

Bedwetting, race hate, Communist holidays and zombies, according to this latest batch of memoirs

Comic queen and friends are on song

A new exhibtion, Things, at the Wellcome Collection, opens in London today.

A 7ft beast in Newcastle, political beasts in Staffordshire and a free feast at St Paul's

Frank Skinner and the Assembly are at loggerheads over his last-minute withdrawal as host of The Talk Show at its new venue in Princes Street Gardens.

Sarah Millican's performance tonight is one of the most consistent and accomplished I have ever seen at the Fringe.

The Government will announce a review of food standards in nurseries today as ministers launch a fresh pre-election assault on the Tories over their plans for Sure Start centres.

The creator of Richard and Judy's Book Club is on a mission to spread the printed word with her new TV show. John Walsh meets publishing's first lady of letters

The English are to blame for Alex Salmond's smugness; the TV book club presenters who know nothing about books; an ode to the old Olivetti; and posterity in pop