What was the name of the family in ALF?
03/03/2020 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2020 Archives
Tue 03 March 2020
Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes
03/03/2020 … It surely goes without saying that Jeremy Hardy’s death last year at the age of 57 was a loss to comedy.
© C4 Comedians up for Royal Television Society awards
Comedy dominates the breakthrough categoty
03/03/2020 … Aisling Bea, Tim Renkow and Motherland star Tanya Moodie are up for the breakthrough accolade in this year’s Royal Television Society awards.
Comics make the Soccer Aid squad
– and get to play at Old Trafford
03/03/2020 … Russell Howard, Joel Dommett, Lee Mack, Mo Gilligan and Tom Davis are to play football at Old Trafford, in the annual Soccer Aid fundraiser.
© Channel 4 Hugo Boss responds to Joe Lycett's name change
03/03/2020 … If you thought fashion house Hugo Boss might react to the the news that comic Joe Lycett changed his name to match theirs with something in the same…
Mon 02 March 2020
James Veitch to front US comedy show
Lisa Kudrow and Kristen Schaal among the guests
02/03/2020 … British stand-up James Veitch is to host a comedy show on new US streaming service Quibi.
Standing Up, Falling Down
New film about a failing open-spot comedian, reviewed by Jay Richardson
02/03/2020 … Films about stand-ups tend to focus on the unsuccessful – mindful of the difficulty, perhaps, of recreating those lightning-in-a-bottle moments of the best…
New podcast from John Kearns and Mat Ewins
02/03/2020 … Mat Ewins and John Kearns are launching an improvised podcast in which they attempt solve some of the world’s biggest mysteries.