but there are many Welsh comedians who lost their accents by relocating. Cooper had a Devonshire accent (though the West Country accent is also often considered as famously funny), and Lee Evans ...

As such, he may seem an odd choice to top our list of Welsh comedy’s rising stars. But he has proved himself to be one of the UK’s brightest comedy lights. Rees has experienced the kind of ...

Welsh comedy actors Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are spending a nostalgic weekend in Merthyr Tydfil for a new BBC One programme airing next week. Once the ‘iron capital of the world’, Speirs’s hometown ...

BBC Wales launches its Festival of Funny season, showcasing Welsh comedy talent across TV, Radio and BBC iPlayer. It’s great to be producing comedy again after the pandemic derailed our plans in ...

The Comedy Arcade, hosted by Welsh comic Vix Leyton, is a competitive anecdotes game and podcast played by a panel of comedians as well as storytellers from the world of TV, music and journalism - ...

It's often said that Welsh humour doesn't travel. People sometimes comment that while the Welsh might find something - a joke, a story or a sketch - hilariously funny, as a general rule nobody ...

Welsh comedian and actor Paul Whitehouse has said the success behind the hit series Gone Fishing with Bob Mortimer is because of its origins being based “100% out of real life”. The BBC Two ...

Comedians have voiced their support for Rhod Gilbert after he confirmed a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Gilbert announced he was being treated for cancer earlier this year, but only confirmed more ...

But yeah, people never challenged me on it and it was getting to the stage where I was described as "Welsh comedian". Meeting real Welsh comedians, 'I was starting to feel that I was stealing a living ...

The Welsh actor, comedian and presenter has just returned to TV screens as Uncle Bryn in the award-winning BBC comedy series but he's also got his on-going stand-up tour, which has played to more ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island, starring Carey Mulligan, Tim Key and Tom Basden, is thought to have been filmed in and around ...