Pierre Novellie uses food as a reward
12/03/2025 … Here’s Pierre Novellie talking about how he puts on weight because he uses food as a reward.
2025 Archives
Wed 12 March 2025
'You go from being a person to being treated like nothing'
Comedian Louis Utieyin on his soul-destroying job... and how it informed his new film role
12/03/2025 … When Louis Utieyin moved to Scotland to study, he took a job in a fulfilment centre to make ends meet.
Comics to vie to be ‘Edinburgh Fringe Comedian of the Year’
New competiton launches at the festival
12/03/2025 … One stand-up will be able to call themselves the ‘Edinburgh Fringe Comedian of the Year’ as a new competition launches at this year’s festival.
© BBC/Guy Levy Chris McCausland up for a Bafta
Strictly dance nominated for most memorable moment
12/03/2025 … Chris McCausland’s appearance on Strictly Comes Dancing has been nominated for the Memorable Moment Award at this year’s Baftas The comedian’s…
Tue 11 March 2025
How much do you know about Douglas Adams?
11/03/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Not Going Out and Beyond Paradise collide
Sally Bretton's two shows mashed up for Comic Relief
11/03/2025 … Not Going Out and Beyond Paradise are to be mashed up for a Comic Relief Sketch.
Matt Forde becomes cancer charity ambassador
Following his own treatment for bone cancer
11/03/2025 … Matt Forde has become an ambassador for the Bone Cancer Research Trust It comes after the comedian and podcast was treated for chordoma, a form of primary…
Netflix deal for comic who played Donald Trump rally
Tony Hinchcliffe also brings Kill Tony to the UK
11/03/2025 … The comedian who called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage at a Donald Trump rally last year has landed a deal with Netflix.