Netflix has changed the game of comedy. The service now has several stand-up specials from female stand-up comedians like Ali Wong and Nicole Byer.

Read our privacy notice. Several claims have circulated online that Rosie Jones has come top of a list of funniest British female comedians, followed by Eddie Izzard and Victoria Wood.

It's International Women's Day! and what better way to celebrate that than by letting you in on all the women in the UK who know how to grab onto your funny bone and unleash snorts of giggles?

Fake social media post brings out the bigots Rosie Jones and Eddie Izzard used as unwitting hate-bait Bigots have been triggered by a fake online poll saying that Rosie Jones has come top of a list of ...

Comedy has become a way for women to skewer China’s gender inequality. Some men aren’t happy about it. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing On the list of topics best avoided by China’s ...

On Ranker’s website, Eddie Izzard does not feature on the list of the “Funniest British Female Comedians Of All Time”. Rosie Jones does feature, but at the time of writing was in position 68.

It is unclear what the source of this claim is. One poster claimed that it came from a survey carried out by “Rankerz”. This is likely a reference to the website Ranker, but Ranker’s list of the ...