'It's hysterically funny – because it's true'
Armando Iannucci on his new film The Death Of Stalin
13/10/2017 … Armando Iannucci has fond memories of the Glasgow Film Theatre.
2017 Archives
Fri 13 October 2017
BBC ordered to improve its comedy shows
Risk-taking is embedded in new Ofcom rules
13/10/2017 … Regulators have told the BBC to improve its TV comedy output after the genre was found to be ‘an area of particular weakness’.
The comedy club in a Palestinian refugee camp
Mark Thomas tells its story in new stage show
13/10/2017 … Mark Thomas has announced a new theatre show – about his efforts to start a comedy club in a Palestinian refugee camp.
The scary six
BBC releases comedy-horror shorts from Northern Ireland
13/10/2017 … The BBC has today released six comedy-horror shorts on iPlayer, in time for Halloween.
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Is this how Mae Martin was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award?
13/10/2017 … For anyone who’s ever thought the Edinburgh Comedy Awards panel must be on drugs – here’s some corroborating evidence.
Thu 12 October 2017
Tom Lucy: I'm no geezer
From Chris` Ramsey’s Stand-Up Central
12/10/2017 … Comic Tom Lucy describes how he’s not like the ‘geezers’ in his family in this clip from Chris` Ramsey’s Stand-Up Central.
Is there a celebrity ex-doctor on board?
When Harry Hill's medical expertise was called upon
12/10/2017 … It's the sort of tale to prompt a TV Burp-style sceptical glance to camera.
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Miles Jupp goes on Dracula's trail
12/10/2017 … Miles Jupp is to follow in the footsteps of one of Bram Stoker’s vampire-hunters for a one-off Radio 4 travelogue.