comedians

As Boris Johnson gets ready to bow out as prime minister, whatever your politics, satirists at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival are making the most of their one last opportunity to make fun of the man who has provided them with one…

Comedians are a famously outspoken bunch, but - in a year that's seen controversial jokes by big hitters like Dave Chapelle and Jimmy Carr lead to a torrent of online vitriol and rage - how are those at the Fringe coping with…

Kangana Ranaut recently shared a video from her old interview where she is seen talking about how she stood up to bullies and humiliation in life. She also spoke about using those experiences as fuel to ignite her ambitions. Check out her…

Comedy panel show Mock The Week is set to end after more than 17 years, with host Dara O'Briain announcing: "We just couldn't be more silly than the news was already."The long-running BBC Two topical show will finish after the…

'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling has become the latest victim of a hoax by Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus who tricked the former into believing she was having a video call with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The prank…

Have you ever heard a laugh that instantly makes you smile and laugh, too? It's probably an Indigenous auntie! Women and two-spirit comedians performed together to provoke that laughter as part of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival last week. A…

It was a joke about a mother, cocaine and Walmart that set the man off.He had been sitting with a woman at the Laugh Factory in Chicago this winter, shouting enthusiastically in response to a joke about drugs when, after being needled about…

It’s the best medicine, cheapest form of therapy and what not… There are multiple definitions of laughter that one can find on the internet. But what does it mean to the one whose job is to make people laugh? In the last two years, when…

Stand-up comedian and actor Vir Das, who is quite active on social media, has reacted to Will Smith’s recent visit to India. On Saturday, Will Smith was spotted at Mumbai’s private airport. He recently made headlines after he slapped…

On Saturday, Hollywood actor Will Smith, who slapped comedian Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage last month was spotted at a private airport in Mumbai. Comedian Vir Das shared a comic ‘welcome’ post for Will and joked that in India, he…