A record-breaking stitch-up
Comic juggler Mat Ricardo on a disastrous gig on Chinese TV
24/01/2016 … They started it.
2016 Archives
Sun 24 January 2016
Sat 23 January 2016
'Offensive' material... for free
23/01/2016 … Brendon Burns: So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive NowBrendon Burns has put his full award-winning 2007 show online, and for free, all in the name of context.
Fri 22 January 2016
Harry Hill leads new batch of iPlayer comedies
Funny Valentines 2016 announced
22/01/2016 … Harry Hill, Stephen Mangan and Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray are to make new shorts for the BBC iPlayer.
Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure Reloaded
22/01/2016 … Travel broadens the mind, so they say, but Eddie Izzard’s centuries-spanning breadth of subject matter was already impressive, even before speeding his Force Majeure…
© Christopher William Adach/Creative Commons Julie Walters joins sex-case drama
Alongside Robbie Coltrane as a comedian under scrutiny
22/01/2016 … Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough are to join Robbie Coltrane in a new Channel 4 drama about a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police…
Hey critics, maybe sometimes satire isn't meant to be taken at face value
Andrew Doyle defends the nuance of Charlie Hebdo
22/01/2016 … I’ve always wanted to write about football.