'Anyone talking about a ballbag is pretty funny...'
Lolly Jones picks her comedy favourites
21/08/2019 … This Country – The vicar's ballbag I love the family rivalry in This Country.
2019 Archives
Wed 21 August 2019
Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
21/08/2019 … Few people put quite so much effort into being so stupidly juvenile as Mat Ewins.
Fern Brady: Power and Chaos
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
21/08/2019 … With her fourth Edinburgh hour, Fern Brady shows she can knock it out the park even when she’s suffering from laryngitis.
New series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee
...but this one's a psychological thriller
21/08/2019 … Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee is to write a ‘contemporary psychological thriller’ for Channel Five.
© UKTV We're never going to be as good as the originals...
Robert Bathurst on playing Sergeant Wilson in the Dad's Army remake
21/08/2019 … On Sunday, Gold airs the first of its remake of three lost episodes of Dad’s Army.
There She Goes, again
BBC orders a second series of David Tennant and Jessica Hynes comedy-drama
21/08/2019 … There She Goes – in which David Tennant and Jessica Hynes – play parents bringing up a girl with severe learning disabilities is to return…
Sky to launch a channel dedicated to US comedies
Including Curb and John Oliver
21/08/2019 … Sky is to launch a new channel dedicated only to US comedy shows.
C4 orders a sitcom about a female Muslim punk band
Lady Parts picked up following a Comedy Blap
21/08/2019 … Channel 4 is making a comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band.