Only An Excuse? comes to an end after 27 years
A Scottish comedy tradition is over
11/11/2020 … Scottish sketch show Only An Excuse? is to come to an end after 27 years.
2020 Archives
Wed 11 November 2020
© DoD News/EJ Hersom/CC BY-SA 2.0 Prince Harry to appear on a stand-up show
Duke joins fundraiser for US military veterans
11/11/2020 … Prince Harry is to appear on the bill of an American stand-up show next week.
Tue 10 November 2020
What's Romesh Ranganathan's real first name?
10/11/2020 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
BBC launches a panel show just for comedians of colour
Desiree Burch to host Bameshow
10/11/2020 … Radio 4 is making its first panel show featuring only comedians of colour.
Tim Key writes a new book
Poems and conversations to be unveiled at next week's Chortle Comedy Book Festival
10/11/2020 … Tim Key has written a new book during lockdown, to be unveiled at next week’s Chortle Comedy Book Festival.
A real comedy pioneer
Unearthed: The first known recording of a comedian broadcast in the UK
10/11/2020 … Here is the oldest surviving recording of a comedian that aired in the UK.
Mon 09 November 2020
Could you write the next Cabin Pressure?
Hunt on for new radio comedy scripts
09/11/2020 … Independent production company Pozzitive is on the lookout for new comedy shows to develop.
Another call-out for Bravo Two Charlies
BBC Radio Wales orders third series
09/11/2020 … BBC Radio Wales has ordered a third series of its police comedy, Bravo Two Charlies.