© BBC How did John Cleese get his revenge on a reviewer?
11/07/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2023 Archives
Tue 11 July 2023
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We're due a live entertainment revival
...and Chloe Radcliffe will even let Gen Z think they discovered it
11/07/2023 … ‘I know not with what videos the next app will be populated, but the app after that will be populated with sticks and stones’ - Albert Einstein, if…
Ed Gamble to host a food-based Taskmaster spin-off
Foodmaster being piloted next week
11/07/2023 … Ed Gamble is hosting a food-related Taskmaster spin-off that could become a new Channel 4 series.
Pierre Novellie on the difference between men and women
11/07/2023 … Pierre Novellie has found an entirely fresh seam of comedy – that men and women are different.
© David Monteith-Hodge Edinburgh Fringe app is back
11/07/2023 … The Edinburgh Fringe has an app, for the first time in four years.
Ellie Taylor updates fairy tales
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
11/07/2023 … Ellie Taylor has updated some fairy tales for the modern age.
Ed Gamble's condi-mental hobby
Comic used to collect salt and pepper pots
11/07/2023 … Ed Gamble has confessed to a bizarre childhood obsession: collecting salt and pepper pots.
Mon 10 July 2023
Sometimes the only thing comedians have is one another
Liz Guterbock has an etiquette guide to helping stand-ups be supportive
10/07/2023 … Whether we like to admit it or not, comedians compete with one another.