Who played the dentist in Mr Bean?
12/10/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2021 Archives
Tue 12 October 2021
© Koury Angelo Bill Burr to play Just For Laughs
Montreal festival announces its first show of 2022
12/10/2021 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival has unveiled its first live gig for 2022: Bill Burr.
Film about a comic's fight with cancer streamed for free
The Bright Side is based on Anne Gildea's story
12/10/2021 … A movie based on Irish comedian Anne Gildea’s experiences with breast cancer is to be screened free online this week.
© UKTV Lucy Beaumont: My bizarre first date with Jon Richardson
Her pal said 'he must be a psychopath'
12/10/2021 … Lucy Beaumont has revealed the moment she met husband-to-be Jon Richardson.
Second series for Tim Minchin's Upright
Milly Alcock also returns for a new mission in Queenland
12/10/2021 … Tim Minchin is to make a second series of his comedy drama Upright, broadcaster Sky has announced.
Mon 11 October 2021
National Comedy Awards open for voting
Channel 4's successor to the British Comedy Awards
11/10/2021 … The longlists have been announced for the National Comedy Awards, Channel 4’s new accolades to honour comedians and programmes across the industry.
Bob Mortimer: And Away... The Autobiography
11/10/2021 … Bob Mortimer has had his life saved twice now.
Turned away from a comedy club... for having a walking stick
Woman calls out venue for discriminating against disabled people
11/10/2021 … A woman has revealed how she denied entry to a comedy club – because she uses a walking stick.