From the classic comedy of Monty Python to the beloved 21st-century Cornetto Trilogy, the creative minds across the pond in the UK are famed for pioneering some of the biggest movements in film and TV ...

No need to convince me — British comedy is pure gold. Wit, understated humor, and self-deprecation add to the quintessential British tendency to laugh at one's misfortunes. Rarely brash, English ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BBC/Channel 4 As a born-and-raised British man, I've spent my life watching British TV so I know firsthand just how good our ...

Saturday Night Live UK's cast is made up of unknown comedians ready for their big break, but British comedy has needed new ...

For ages, various friends of mine recommended that I check out Taskmaster, a British comedy game show in which a group of five comedians earn points by completing a series of silly challenges. The ...

Veteran TV producer Ben Farrell (Peep Show) is the first person to admit the UK excels at making a lot of shows “about people drinking tea and having chats in a corset.” But its second bumper crop ...

It's been a long time coming, but Digital Spy is finally in print. And our magazine – the first of many, we hope – is a standalone issue devoted entirely to one thing: great British comedians. Why ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is inching towards greenlighting its next big sitcom and we can reveal which producers are in the running. The corporation’s comedy boss Jon Petrie said last May his team would fund ...