As a born and bred Londoner, I now wish I'd had an opportunity to play my part - banging a drum along with Danny Boyle would have been good fun. I admit I blew it.

Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the British Comedy Awards. Having missed my opportunity to do so two years in a row previously, I was naturally excited to be in a room surrounded by my favourite British comics

Trust Sacha Baron-Cohen to come up with the goods and provide the British Comedy Awards with its only controversial moment (if you don't count the ove...

The 2012 British Comedy Awards took place in London on Wednesday night - and there were some surprise winners among the results. Julia Davis's spoo...

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer will be awarded The Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award at The British Comedy Awards later. Mortimer said: "I'm reall...

The BBC's Olympics-based comedy series Twenty Twelve will take on the broadcaster's political satire The Thick of It in three categories at this year'...

Loaded magazine presented its annual comedy awards - the Laftas (see what they did there?) - in London yesterday. Unlike the British Comedy Awards...

Call it belief, call it over-excitement, call it both dumb and blind optimism: I am rather sharing Mr Welland's view right now after the year 2011 has been. Not for Brits in movies, that is - but for women in comedy.

Comedy stars old and new were honoured with accolades at the 2011 British Comedy Awards. The ceremony saw gongs given to veteran comic Victoria Woo...

Host Jonathan Ross kicked off the British Comedy Awards at Fountain Studios in north London by recapping the year's comic highlights with a series of ...

Comic Miranda Hart could be set to repeat her triumph of last year after she was nominated for four gongs at the British Comedy Awards. Miranda, wh...

Miranda Hart will be defending her crown as Queen of Comedy at the British Comedy Awards 2011. The star of hit BBC show Miranda, who won the People...