Billy Crystal is still coming, still playing the ASB theatre but on different days.

Get off the beaten track and keep an emergency credit card safely hidden.

With Rhys Darby calling the shots the Comedy Fest luminaries needed to bring their A game.

Comedian Paul Ego has passed on the gift of the gab to his boy Gabe. Father and son talk to Dionne Christian

Comedian Paul Ego gives his son Gabe, a pep talk before taking to the stage before a stand up gig. Gabe is looking to follow in his fathers footsteps by becoming a comedian.

Here are five new comedy festival acts you should be intrigued by.

We ended up at a hotel that had its glory days in the 70s, it was huge with practically no guests in it.

Ahead of his first New Zealand shows, Billy Crystal talks about his long and storied comedy career

The celebrated Oscar host is appearing doing two nights of "sit-down" comedy in Auckland ....

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This is the show that all the palagi uncles go to. I went with my Uncle Derek, and we unexpectedly ran into my Dad and my Uncle Ken. They all seemed to be enjoying the Monty Python nostalgia. Especially the Fish Dance.

I entered an underground fight club on Phi Phi Island in Thailand a couple years ago. They put me up against an actual K1 fighter. Needless to say, the fight didn't last long.

Jaz Coleman is supposed to be having a break from music, but he just can't help himself.

Comedy star Amy Schumer is vehemently denying claims that she stole jokes from several other comedians - including Wendy Liebman, Tammy Pescatelli, Kathleen Madigan and the late Patrice O'Neal.

"Everyone was quite shocked. There were audible gasps."

We didn't have a TV. I grew up in Peru in a village at the top of the Andes, higher than Mt Cook.

John Cleese talks about bringing Monty Python to New Zealand and the formative experiences the country gave him as a young man

John Cleese won't visit the city he once called "the suicide capital of New Zealand" for his next tour here.

Not in New Zealand because it's not on TV here, but I do get lovely messages in broken English from places like South America or Iraq saying "Are you the Mystic Ranger?"

The man who brought us Fred Dagg is returning to take a fresh look at Godzone.

Nightmare comedy duo Tim and Eric are dedicated to pushing boundaries at upcoming Auckland show, discovers Chris Schulz.

Developing a sudden liking for slapstick comedy could herald the onset of dementia up to nine years before the illness is diagnosed.

Rowan Atkinson has been given a "quickie" divorce from his wife of 24 years Sunetra.

TV3 debuted its new local comedy offering last night, led by an all-female line up. But is it any good?

Duncan Greive heads behind-the-scenes to check out TV3's newest comedy offering, Funny Girls.

Russell Brand swaggered, thrusted, probed and taunted his way through a 90 minute set, pointed out the absurdities of the world, and of human nature, and left the 4000 strong audience in a daze.