© Marc Brenner Review of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith on the West End stage
29/01/2025 … With its confined sets and small cast, the 55 varied stories under the Inside No9 umbrella have always had theatrical sensibilities.
Little Britain duo launch an interview podcast
29/01/2025 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams have reunited to create a new podcast.
© University of Salford Press Office (Alistsair pic)/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comedian daughter Grace reveals his dirty tricks as a father
29/01/2025 … Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell has certainly got a reputation for the dark arts of twisting reality to his ends.
29/01/2025 … Amelia Dimoldenberg and Joanna Lumley star in a new sketch to mark the launch of this year’s Red Nose Day.
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 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…
...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…
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.
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