How much do you know about Ricky Gervais's Derek?
09/04/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2024 Archives
Tue 09 April 2024
Fin Taylor vs Paul Gorton from Traitors
Latest interview in his web series
09/04/2024 … Fin Taylor is joined by Paul Gorton from Traitors on the latest episode of his web talk show.
© BBC Studios/Simon Ridgway Mammoth's 1970s wardrobe is my wardrobe...
Mike Bubbins and Sian Gibson on their new BBC comedy
09/04/2024 … Mike Bubbins’s sitcom Mammoth comes to BBC Two next week, three-and-a-half years since it piloted.
BBC man who launched Dad's Army dies at 98
Paul Fox helped give the comedy its iconic title sequence
09/04/2024 … The BBC executive who oversaw the launch of Dad's Army and The Two Ronnies has died at the age of 98, the broadcaster has announced.
© Steve Ullathorne Sketch Off final 2024
Tim Harding reviews the gig at Leicester Square Theatre
09/04/2024 … Is sketch comedy gathering momentum? Well, yes and no.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures 'I could be the female Seth Rogan'
09/04/2024 … Ashley Storrie stars in the new BBC comedy Dinosaur, which she also co-created with Matilda Curtis.
Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
09/04/2024 … Few would have expected a wordless physical comedy show from a Polish clown to be the underground hit of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, but here we…
Mel & Sam: The Platonic Human Centipede
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
09/04/2024 … As the title graphically suggests, Mel and Sam’s latest Melbourne show is about two besties so inseparable that ‘joined at the hip’ just isn’t…