Having forgiven millions of dollars in medical debts, television comedian John Oliver sprays Brexit architects and Trump in expletive-laden rant.

It's the big heart that wins through.

Ben Pobjie recalls lots of laughs as he counts down his top 10 TV comedies.

Television's favourite neurotic, short-tempered and politically incorrect character is back after HBO announced Curb Your Enthusiasm was returning for a ninth season.

Patrick Stewart talks about his first starring role in a comedy series and how it brought him back six decades to his first career – journalism.

To describe The Katering Show merely as a cooking-show parody is like describing Nigella Lawson as some woman who knows how to boil an egg.

The ABC's Comedy Showroom is a welcome showcase for talent.

The two Kates – McLennan and McCartney – have gone legit as the ABC gives them a second series of their wickedly funny cooking parody program.

Comedy teams are being turned against each other in a TV viewer-voted game of thrones.

Julia-Louis Dreyfus, star of biting political satire Veep, was 'dumbstruck' when Malcolm Turnbull appropriated her moronic slogan 'continuity with change'.

Horace and Pete is comedian Louis C.K.'s pet project with Steve Buscemi, and is as brilliant and gripping as you'd expect.

Actor and writer Alison Bell eschews the well-worn cliches of motherhood for darker content in The Letdown.

There's no need to ask if Ellie Kemper can be funny.

Late-night TV stars including James Corden want to turn popular segments of their shows into separate series.

Broad City's stars and writers all agree on one thing: Physical humour is funny and shouldn't be off-limits to women. The result? A hysterical comedy with empowering undertones.

Stand down Gilmore Girls fans. She's not too "f---ing busy" to come back as Sookie in the revival.

Utter the phrase "four candles" to anyone of a certain age (ie me), especially if they were brought up in the UK in the 1970s (me, again) and you will raise anything from a chuckle of recognition to an outright guffaw.

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That's a question the experts are asking themselves as they watch Netflix shed thousands of movies.

It's easy to think that the HBO model was born with the debut of The Sopranos in 1999 but in reality the cable provider's legacy of critically lauded, profoundly influential television started years before with Garry Shandling and The Larry Sanders Show.

This queen in Galavant may be greedy, manipulative and sadistic, but Mallory Jansen loves her.