Comedians join Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
02/10/2019 … Comics Phill Jupitus, Shappi Khorsandi, Jamali Maddix and Bobby Mair are all taking part in the next series of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.
2019 Archives
Wed 02 October 2019
Hugh Bonneville joins seaside comedy Sandylands
Alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar, David Walliams and Simon Bird
02/10/2019 … Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville has joined the cast of Gold’s new seaside-set sitcom Sandylands.
Tue 01 October 2019
Lenny Henry: I never thought black people could be comedians
Clip to promote his new memoirs
01/10/2019 … Lenny Henry says he never thought comedy could be a job for him when he was younger - because he never saw black comics on TV.
Ben Elton Live 2019
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Nottingham Playhouse
01/10/2019 … What is Ben Elton’s place in the world? At 60 years old and 15 years away from the front line of live comedy, can the stand-up who made his name by being radical…
© BBC/Gary Moyes French & Saunders join Death On The Nile
Starring alongside Russell Brand in Kenneth Branagh movie
01/10/2019 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have joined the cast of the new Death On The Nile movie.
Who ACTUALLY framed Roger Rabbit?
01/10/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© BBC/Merman Shame on us for making Motherland so white
BBC comedy's writers admit they 'missed a trick' in casting
01/10/2019 … When BBC Two’s comedy Motherland launched last year it was garlanded with praise for its warts-and-all portrayal of flustered parents thrust together at…
Susan Calman is on the Menu
'Superfan' comic joins BBC Two's Great British Menu
01/10/2019 … Susan Calman is to present the next series of BBC Two's Great British Menu.