The Monty Python team, all equipped with evasive middle-class charm, have ducked the admission that their reunion next northern summer is driven by lucre.

7 Days team captains Dai Henwood and Paul Ego are joining us for a live chat at 12pm as they prepare to take their show on the road.

Hey kids, get ready to shout 'Look behind you!' when the Christmas panto season starts, says Dionne Christian.

Party on, dudes? Bill & Ted fans, Keanu Reeves says he is game for another excellent adventure.

The words stand-up comedian and sold-out stadium hardly ever appear in that same sentence in this country, but comedy mega-star Michael McIntyre regularly fills Britain's largest venues and he had no trouble packing out the Vector Arena.

Play embraces the digital age, writes Barney McDonald.

Amy Poehler says she wants to host the Golden Globes "Lord of the Rings-style".

British comedian Russell Brand has been kicked out of the GQ Awards afterparty after cracking jokes about Nazis.

Both supporters and critics of Dave Chappelle flooded social media sites with comments after he was heckled at a show in Connecticut and refused to perform his set.

Kiwi comedian's final blog from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

A comedian and poet who recently gave up his job selling paintbrushes to perform full-time has come up with the official funniest joke of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

When he was growing up, Michael Winslow didn't have many close friends - but he sure had some famous ones.

Comedian Brendon Green is heading to Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the hope the British think Kiwis are funny.

Nick Grant catches up with Michael Winslow ahead of his New Zealand shows.

Mel Smith, the comic actor who rose to fame through the ground-breaking sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News, has died.

Moviegoers be warned, things are about to get dumb, twice as dumb in fact with the release of a sequel to one of the 90s most popular comedies.

About 20 clowns have been accepted into New Zealand's first academic programme to become fully qualified medical comedians.

Tenacious D's jokes didn't have the subtlety for an 80 minute set but they made up for it with musical talent and charisma, Lydia Jenkin writes.

He told the June issue of GQ magazine: "I don't think I've seen much of it.

What sort of voice should we read your answers in?

A top international comedian has hit out at the NZ Comedy Festival, angry that he's lost thousands of dollars and that promoters charged him a fee to send an email.