What was the taxi firm in Carry On Cabbie?
13/09/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2022 Archives
Tue 13 September 2022
The Queen dies and the news runs out of things to say
Tom Little struggles to fill the hours...
13/09/2022 … Five days into the official period of mourning for the Queen… and maybe the 24-hour news outlets have run out of things to say.
© A&E Television Networks Britain’s Greatest Obsessions: Harry On Humour
Review of the new Sky History series
13/09/2022 … Thank heavens for Harry Hill, whose wit and enthusiasm saved the otherwise flimsy first episode of Britain’s Greatest Obsessions from a complete descent…
Brett Goldstein wins a second Emmy
13/09/2022 … Brett Goldstein has another Emmy award to add to his collection.
Mon 12 September 2022
© C4 Man Down's Gwyneth Powell dies at 76
Actress best known as Grange Hill's Mrs McClusky
12/09/2022 … Gwyneth Powell, who played Greg Davies’s mum on Man Down, has died at the age of 76.
© BBC Why do the Brits know so little about the Irish
Oliver Callan and other comics address the issue in a new BBC podcast
12/09/2022 … Oliver Callan is to look at why the British know so little about Ireland in a new BBC Sounds podcast.
Who had the best reviewed shows of the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe?
Dave Johns and Jordan Gray top the analysis
12/09/2022 … Dave Johns was the best-reviewed show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, followed by award nominee Jordan Gray.
Meantime, by Frankie Boyle
Review of the comedians first crime novel
12/09/2022 … Frankie Boyle’s debut novel is no celebrity cash-in but an evocative – if sometimes messy – detective story set in Glasgow’s underclass,…