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.
2019 Archives
Tue 01 October 2019
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.
Union Jack backs Leicester Comedy Festival again
Radio station renews sponsorship for 2020
01/10/2019 … Digital radio station Union Jack has announced that it will be one of the sponsors of next year’s Leicester Comedy Festival.
Shappi Khorsandi: Boris Johnson touched me inappropriately too
Comic tells of physical contact on Question Time
01/10/2019 … Shappi Khorsandi has become the latest woman to claim Boris Johnson touched her inappropriately.