John-Luke Roberts spoofs ALL the podcasts
New series launching next week
25/05/2021 … John-Luke Roberts is to launch a new podcast, spoofing all the other podcasts.
Tue 25 May 2021
© BBC/Leopard Pictures/Matt Burlem Who played Aunt Sally in the remake of Worzel Gummidge?
25/05/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Bill Bailey says BBC rejected his Eurovision song
Comic was told 'it's too silly, we can’t have that'
25/05/2021 … Bill Bailey one put forward a song for Eurovision – which the BBC rejected for being ‘too silly’.
The ultimate Friends gift?
Hamper full of references to the sitcom
25/05/2021 … Could this hamper BE any more timely? In what could be the ultimate gift for Friends fans, this collection contains two dozen items inspired by the hit sitcom.
© Matt Humphrey Fleabag stage show heads to Amazon Prime
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s West End performance filmed by the National Theatre
25/05/2021 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s stage performance of Fleabag is to broadcast on Amazon Prime next month.
© Two Rivers Salisbury gets its first comedy festival
Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain headline
25/05/2021 … Salisbury is to stage its first comedy festival – a day-long outdoor event headlined by Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain.
Who are these comedians getting cancelled?
...and what is it they can't say, asks Robin Ince
25/05/2021 … One of the great tricks of the powerful is to hold all the power while also playing the part of the oppressed.
Comedians return to Celebrity Gogglebox
25/05/2021 … Iain Stirling and his presenter wife Laura Whitmore; Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aléshé, and Gyles Brandreth & Maureen Lipman are all…