What was Captain Mainwaring's first name?
19/03/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz, now in multiple choice format and- compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2019 Archives
Tue 19 March 2019
The Stand's Kenny O'Brien wins Chortle's offstage contribution award
Tom Stade does the honours in Edinburgh
19/03/2019 … Kenny O'Brien – the departing general manager of The Stand comedy clubs – was presented with the 2019 Chortle Award for best offstage contribution last night.
Catherine Tate's Nan to become a movie star
Comic writes a script for her enduring creation
19/03/2019 … Catherine Tate is planning to make a film based upon her foul-mouthed Nan character.
© Channel 4 Sharon Horgan: We thought the potato famine would be ripe for laughs!
Catastrophe creator reveals her worst idea...
19/03/2019 … News that Channel 4 were developing a sitcom set during the Irish potato famine provoked outrage in some quarters when it leaked in 2015.
When Michael Keaton was a stand-up comedian in the 1980s
19/03/2019 … Hollywood star Michael Keaton has been speaking about his early career as a stand-up.
Melbourne festival helps comics to get home safely
19/03/2019 … The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has launched a new scheme to help performers get home safely after gigs.
New comedy about indigenous Australian detectives
19/03/2019 … A new Australian comedy series is to based around the exploits of two detectives in an indigenous community.
How Amanda Holden was first choice to be in Smack The Pony
Future Britain's Got Talent judge starred in the pilot
19/03/2019 … Twenty years ago to the day, Smack the Pony launched the comedy careers of Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips.