Watch the Irish rowing pair give and honest and hilarious interview after their sliver winning performance.

After decades and decades and billions and billions of dollars it turns out about a million New Zealanders don't have the numeracy and literacy skills to make a living or make a go of life.

Only Bill Bailey could have a theatre roaring with laughter over the Renaissance painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas.

David Fane has been suspended from his Radio Network job for a week for offensive comments made during an expletive-laden rant last week.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's amusing yet bittersweet debut film is a departure from their previous collaborations.

An embarrassed TVNZ has been forced to apologise to viewers after it was duped into broadcasting a live-to-air interview with a fake pro-whaling lobbyist.

The state broadcaster has admitted it was duped by a prankster pretending to be a pro-whaling advocate.

Another local comedy crew is unleashing its souped-up vehicle.

They had big shoes to fill, those comedians.

New show Radiradirah has assembled a comedy dream team in a cast where Boy goes bro'Town and it's Fred Dagg v Flight of the Conchords. But is putting them all in a sketch show a good idea?

Teenage comic Rhys Mathewson has disco-danced his way to a Billy T. James award.

Opening with the eternal question - 'what do you do with a BA in English?' - Avenue Q dispenses a bright and breezy antidote to the pressures of life in the big city.

The man behind 'Chopper' - and the star of forthcoming New Zealand film Predicament - talks to Alex Perrott.

There are fewer Indian jokes this year, even though they are clearly what the audience is after - the thick accents Mohanbhai did pull out had the room roaring.

Drawing on her six decades in comedy, Betty White was the consummate host - sweet, sassy, salty, charming and clearly game for anything.

Courteney Cox's new role is her most daring and controversial yet. She tells Rebecca Barry why she's basically playing herself.

Cougar Town perpetuates some nasty stereotypes about men and women, reports Deborah Hill Cone.

Four Lions tells the story of four young Muslim fundamentalists who travel from Yorkshire to London for a bungled assault on the marathon.

Should your wallet still be showing signs of flushness and your sides remain unsplit after three weeks of comedy festival, there's another big name on the way.

At the more refined end of the Comedy Fest spectrum is an elegant memoir chronicling Paul Barrett's life-long engagement with Tourette's syndrome.

Comedian Justine Smith gets serious about her favourite things.