Chris Martin from the UK will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Normally I would do everything in my power to ignore it but being on 7 Days means I have "to be aware of things other people care about".

Lisa Chappell's self-penned, one-woman show is a macabre comedy that takes us a million miles away from the wholesome, girl-next-door persona of McLeod's Daughter.

We round up the year's best and worst April Fools' hoaxes.

When US comedian Laurie Kilmartin found out that her 83-year-old father was dying from lung cancer she decided to "surround him with love and sarcasm".

A new crop of sitcoms has Nick Grant pulling up the couch.

Five new series begin this week; not all are good.

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly will tour New Zealand this year, bringing his "High Horse Tour" to 12 cities and towns in April and May.

Ben Stiller says a script for Zoolander 2 exists, but he's trying to "figure out" how to get the movie sequel off the ground.

Coarse, confronting and occasionally profound Auckland-based comedy series just what we've been missing.

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.

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".

Yep, there's something about Harry. Our 30-something mum and media maven Jaquie Brown admits a secret crush on boy band One Direction.

Billy Connolly has revealed he has been cleared of prostate cancer and will go ahead with a tour of New Zealand next year.

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.