© BBC/Thomas Atilla Lewis Frankie vs Ricky
Boyle accused of hypocrisy after calling out Gervais over trans jokes
29/12/2020 … Frankie Boyle has slammed Ricky Gervais over his jokes about trans people.
2020 Archives
Tue 29 December 2020
© BBC/Thomas Atilla Lewis Mon 28 December 2020
Let's show we don't all subscribe to the worst racist rhetoric of Brexit
Stewart Lee on his campaign to get to No 1 with Asian Dub Foundation
28/12/2020 … Move over Miley Cyrus and tell Ed Sheeran the news.
Martin Lambie-Nairn, the man who dreamt up Spitting Image, dies at 75
Designer also created C4's logo and more
28/12/2020 … The designer who first came up with the idea for Spitting Image has died at the age of 75.
Taskmaster, Nish Kumar and Emily Atack
Chortle's most-read stories of 2020...
28/12/2020 … It goes without saying that 2020 has been an odd year for comedy… and everything else on the planet.
Sun 27 December 2020
© BBC Dawn French: I've been asked to perform exorcisms
Comic cashes in on Vicar Of Dibley character
27/12/2020 … Dawn French says she’s been asked to perform exorcisms, in the guise of the Vicar Of Dibley.
© BBC/BOC Pix Mrs Brown's Boys star sues over pay
As sitcom slumps in the Christmas Day ratings
27/12/2020 … Mrs Brown’s Boys star Gary Hollywood is suing the show’s creator Brendan O’Carroll in a row over pay.
© Netflix Death To 2020
Review of Charlie Brooker's end-of-year round-up for Netflix
27/12/2020 … It fast became a cliché to say that the spiralling dystopia of 2020 was like an out-of-control episode of Black Mirror.
© ITV Billy Connolly on his incredible career
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
27/12/2020 … The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.