Henley Festival announces its 2024 line-up
Mark Watson, Dara Ó Briain, Sara Pascoe and more
24/01/2024 … The Henley Festival – the UK’s only black-tie music and arts festival – has announced its line-up for 2024.
2024 Archives
Wed 24 January 2024
Janey Godley documentary to close Glasgow Film Festival
Plus movies about Billy Connolly and Louis CK
24/01/2024 … A documentary about Janey Godley, her comedy and her cancer, is to close the Glasgow Film Festival, it has been announced.
© Matt Misisco Chris Martin releases his second album
LA-based Brit tapes a special in Washington DC
24/01/2024 … Chris Martin is to release his second comedy album, Above Ground Comedian, next month.
High Vaultage comedy
London festival announces line-up
24/01/2024 … London’s Pinch of Vault festival has announced its comedy line-up.
Tue 23 January 2024
Icklewick FM
Review of the new Radio 4 comedy from Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill and others
23/01/2024 … Is there something of the Royston Vasey about Icklewick? A small Northern backwater, full of eccentrics, with something sinister afoot… Not that the local…
What was the subtitle of Naked Gun 33 1⁄3?
Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz... all about the films of the Zucker Brothers
23/01/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© BBC BBC Northern Ireland unveils new comedy shorts
With Ciarán Bartlett and other local stand-ups
23/01/2024 … Northern Irish comedians have made two new series of comedy shorts for the BBC.
Minister slams News Quiz as 'completely biased'
Backlash as Huw Merriman complains about 'anti-Tory diatribe'
23/01/2024 … Government minister Huw Merriman has slated Radio 4’s News Quiz as ‘completely biased’.