Sitcom stars and real-life married couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are bringing their raunchy live show to New Zealand. Rachel Bache gets the dirty details.

Woo woo! An odd collaboration between a comedian and a rapper has been released today - but Justin Bieber is keeping The Pigeon Song from the top spot in the charts.

Comedian and actor Stephen Fry is planning on telling some tales on his upcoming tour Down Under.

Comic Darren Walsh has scooped a prize after showing off the pundamentals of his craft at the Edinburgh Fringe.

11 years on from the final episode of Friends, a previously unaired scene has been doing the rounds featuring an unfortunately timed joke in an airport.

Fans of Parks and Recreation, get excited. Ron Swanson and his evil sex-crazed ex-wife Tammy are coming to New Zealand.

A new teaser trailer has been released for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, showing the new host settling in on set.

Comedian Amy Poehler is under fire after a joke about Beyonce's three-year-old daughter bombed on her new web series Difficult People.

Jemaine Clement has criticised local television networks, telling a US newspaper they have "no interest in making television comedy in New Zealand at all".

Probably most familiar to Kiwis as one of the regular funny men on the end of Graham Norton's couch, English comedy star John Bishop is heading to Auckland for the first time.

US comedian Jon Stewart says he expects to return to stand-up once he leaves The Daily Show.

Cult comedy legend Kevin Smith is heading for our shores.

He might be a bit exhausting. He does rather hurt your ears. Even by email, which is quite a feat.

Comedian Rose Matafeo is leaving New Zealand for the bright lights of the UK - and to join her boyfriend, James Acaster.

Funny-man Russell Brand loves to stir things up for a laugh - but Lydia Jenkin discovers an intellectual jester who is using his fame to change the world one joke at a time.

Delivering one-line jokes on social media has secured a Dunedin comedian a job interview with Family Guy director Seth MacFarlane.

Former Seven Sharp presenter Jesse Mulligan has spoken out about his experience fronting the show, saying it was "hard to find a place to be useful".

Cam Cumming was so keen to do stand-up, he stormed the stage at an event on Thursday night, to the initial chagrin of the star attraction.

An aspiring comedian who rushed the stage at his local bar and stole the microphone off a star comedian says "too much vodka" was to blame for his actions.

The Thrilling Adventure Hour takes a little longer than that. It's actually about 80 to 85 minutes on stage, says Ben Blacker, laughing.

Noel Fielding took to the stage and embraced the bare accoutrements of traditional stand-up comedy, writes Karl Puschmann.

It might be years since the end of The Mighty Boosh, but the local following that Noel Fielding earned from the surreal show will be welcoming him to this year's comedy festival.

Three makes a trend, so it's official: Amy Schumer is the new John Oliver.

I have never been a big fan of comedians who resort to crude, shock humour, riddled with curse words that would make a sailor proud. So it was refreshing to get along to Wash Your Mouth Out, at Vault at the Q Theatre, in Auckland.

Miles Allen was a struggling actor in LA when his Breaking Bad impressions went viral, making him one of the hottest tickets at this year's Comedy Festival. He talks, in many voices, to Chris Schulz.

Colin Hay, the singer of Men At Work classics like 'Down Under', returns to Auckland as part of this year's comedy festival.

Taika Waititi is returning to the small screen in Brown Eye, a satirical look at the news with a Maori perspective which is starting on Maori Television next month.