'Yup, we were duped'
How Sacha Baron Cohen pranked Sarah Palin
11/07/2018 … Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has revealed that she was targeted by Sacha Baron Cohen’s new satirical TV show.
2018 Archives
Wed 11 July 2018
Tue 10 July 2018
Netflix to release 47 comedy specials on one day
...including these four UK based comics
10/07/2018 … Netflix has announced a major new project featuring half-hour specials from 47 comedians from around the world.
© BBC/Wall to Wall/Stephen Perry How Lee Mack's comedian great-grandfather walked off the battlefield and on to the stage
Revelations in the next Who Do You Think You Are?
10/07/2018 … Lee Mack has discovered that his great-grandfather was not only a comedian, but a soldier who survived the bloodiest day in British Army history.
Could you enter the the Jewish New Comedian Of The Year?
10/07/2018 … Entries have opened for the Jewish New Comedian Of The Year competition.
What was the theme tune to The Golden Girls?
10/07/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Quick release for Iain Stirling’s first book
Not Ready To Adult Yet brought forward two weeks
10/07/2018 … The release of Iain Stirling’s first book Not Ready To Adult Yet has been moved forward.
The smile high club
BA adds new stand-up specials under Soho Theatre deal
10/07/2018 … Five new stand-up shows have been added to British Airways in-flight entertainment.
50-50 by Garfunkel and Oates
10/07/2018 … Musical comics Garfunkel and Oates have released a pragmatic, feminist love song, entitled 50/50.