• Hannah Francis

Melbourne's premier LGBTI festival celebrates its 30th year with a bang.

• Elissa Blake

Comedian Celia Pacquola's nudity clause? "No nipples and no side boob!"

• Aja Styles

Saturday Night Live unsurprisingly concluded the year with a Christmas special featuring Alec Baldwin as his favourite blonde in office, only this time Vladimir Putin was included in the act.

• Ebony Bowden

Comedian Amy Schumer has cancelled her Australian stand-up tour just five days before she was due to perform in Perth.

• Lenny Ann Low

Sam Simmons and his fight against beige is our hottest comedy export.

• Lenny Ann Low

Dilruk Jayasinha left the heady heights of accountancy for sweaty live comedy.

• Lenny Ann Low

Nath Valvo tickles with spiky wit.

• Jane Cornwell

There are no hecklers in the audience anymore for one of the world's most loved comedians who is on his way to Sydney.

• Craig Platt

Bill Bailey is one of the few modern comedians who avoids vulgarity or going dark for shock value (though there's the occasional brief bit of black humour).

• Karl Quinn

The English stand-up comedian knows how it feels to be torn down by the tabloids, but it hasn't quite stopped him speaking his mind.

• Karl Quinn

The master of observational comedy will perform Down Under for the first time in almost 20 years next August. But don't expect any cracks at Melbourne's expense.

• Lenny Ann Low

Lawrence Mooney reflects on a year of living dangerously in his show Moonman.

• Ebony Bowden

Hundreds of Donald Trump fans have walked out of an Amy Schumer performance in Florida overnight after the comedian's show turned political.

• Lenny Ann Low

Randy the Purple Puppet's new solo show is an excursion into enlightenment via laughter.

• Lenny Ann Low

Sakdiyah Ma’ruf is an Indonesian stand-up comic challenging Islamic extremism

Michael Palin says he and the other members of the Monty Python comedy troupe will rally around Terry Jones as he battles dementia.

• Anne-Marie Peard

Returning from Edinburgh to an audience of nine, Joshua Ladgrove decides to improvise, to hilarious effect.

• Hannah Francis

Wes Snelling's affecting vocals amp up the pathos for a singer who has seen better days.

• Tim Biggs

The actors' fast wit and familiarity with the bard will please fans of Shakespeare and philistines alike.

• Tim Biggs

Best known for their improvisation, the Sparrow Men shine brightest when they digress from this whodunit script.

• Cameron Woodhead

A top notch local cast brings impeccable comic timing and wonderful slapstick to the classic comedy.

• Jason Zinoman

In the middle of her dynamic show, Amy Schumer swigged from a bottle of wine like a movie pirate and asked, 'Can I just tell you guys all my secrets?'

• Anne-Marie Peard

Penny Parsins is every white 20-something on a beach in a bikini on Instagram.

• Louise Schwartzkoff

For years Zoe Coombs Marr felt out of place and uncomfortable working Australia's comedy club scene, now she is basking in the adoration of crowds at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.