'Some of the greatest few minutes of television ever made'
Jenny Bede picks her comedy favourites
20/08/2019 … Hi, just so you know I take this sort of thing way too seriously, and I’ve sucked all the fun out of it for myself.
2019 Archives
Tue 20 August 2019
Adam Hess: My Grandad Has A Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
20/08/2019 … At one point in My Grandad Has A Fringe, Adam Hess does a more-than serviceable impression of Michael Mcintyre.
© UKTV Go easy on us for remaking Dad's Army!
Kevin McNally on playing Captain Mainwaring
20/08/2019 … On Sunday, Gold airs the first of its remake of three lost episodes of Dad’s Army.
Amused Moose picks its new comedy champion
Babatunde Aléshé crowned at Edinburgh Fringe
20/08/2019 … Babatunde Aléshé has won this year’s Amused Moose National New Comic award.
Mon 19 August 2019
Broccoli pun 'is offensive to Tourette's sufferers'
Charity demands apology from Fringe comic Olaf Falafel
19/08/2019 … It might seem like a harmless pun – but the line named ‘joke of the Fringe’ today has been slammed as offensive.
Stuart McPherson: Mr. November
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
19/08/2019 … Stuart McPherson isn’t the first (male) comic I’ve seen this Fringe comparing himself to a grandparent and decide they’ve come up short.
LOLs in translation
Adapting humour for an international audience
19/08/2019 … The Edinburgh Fringe attracts an international audience and an increasing number of comedians from overseas.
Tom Parry: Parryoke!
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
19/08/2019 … If you translate Tom Parry’s name into French it comes out as Joie De Vivre.