Frank Skinner shoots Muhammad Ali film
'He was the funniest man I heard'
04/04/2017 … Frank Skinner is shooting a BBC documentary about his hero Muhammad Ali.
2017 Archives
Tue 04 April 2017
© BBC/So Television/Christopher Baines Comics make Hay
04/04/2017 … Sandi Toksvig, Graham Norton and Eddie Izzard are to appear at the Hay Festival from next month.
President Trump gets his own Comedy Central show
Courtesy of impersonator Anthony Atamanuik
04/04/2017 … Donald Trump has landed his own Comedy Central show… in the guise of an impressionist.
© Nick Aleck/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic/CC BY-SA 2.0 Friends rejection 'left me burning with hatred'
04/04/2017 … Simpsons star Hank Azaria has revealed he was left 'burning with jealousy' after losing out a role in Friends.
Phill Jupitus leads Greater Manchester Fringe highlights
04/04/2017 … The Greater Manchester Fringe has unveiled its 2017 programme.
Quiz answers: April 4
04/04/2017 … 1) Tim Brooke Taylor (above in the film) 2) Canary (a yellow one) 3 The Cow Shed 4 An arm 5 Cosmo 6 Gerald Wiley 7 'Ello My Darlings 8 Maths 9 Samantha 10 Jennifer…
Stephen Fry's The Hippopotamus to open comedy film fest
...And Every Brilliant Thing to close it
04/04/2017 … The film version of Stephen Fry’s comic novel The Hippopotamus is to open the sixth LOCO London Comedy Film Festival next month, it has been announced.
Bob Franklin: An Hour's Too Long For Stand-Up
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne Comedy Festival
04/04/2017 … Bob Franklin is a comedian who’s saying what we are all thinking, in the title at least.