Joanna Lumley meets Amelia Dimoldenberg
29/01/2025 … Amelia Dimoldenberg and Joanna Lumley star in a new sketch to mark the launch of this year’s Red Nose Day.
2025 Archives
Wed 29 January 2025
Tue 28 January 2025
How much do you know about Olivia Colman's career?
28/01/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© BBC Ricky Gervais blamed for Slough's bad reputation
As The Office town named the unhappiest place to live
28/01/2025 … It already had a bad reputation, thanks largely to John John Betjeman’s savage 1937 lines ‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn’t…
Leigh Francis: I don't regret any of my jokes
...but I probably wouldn't do some of them now
28/01/2025 … Comedian Leigh Francis says he doesn’t regret anything he has done in the past but concedes that he would ‘probably change’ some things, as he…
Entries open for David Nobbs comedy writing competition
28/01/2025 … Entries have opened for this year’s David Nobbs comedy writing competition, set up in 2017 after the death of the Reggie Perrin author.
© fern.elise UK tour for Jamaican comic Dale Elliott Jr
....plus a London date for Kumail Nanjiani
28/01/2025 … Jamaican-born comedian Dale Elliott Jr – known for his internet sketches – has announced a European with his new show Son Of An Immigrant.
Alan Davies announces his first tour in a decade
Think Ahead comes as he releases the next volume of his memoirs
28/01/2025 … Alan Davies is to tour the UK for the first time in a decade.
Dara Ó Briain to front volcano documentary
‘What an adventure!' comic says
28/01/2025 … Dara Ó Briain is to present a new TV documentary about volcanoes.