What was Spike Milligan's real first name?
20/04/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 20 April 2021
The secret life of your wi-fi router
20/04/2021 … Every feel like your wi-fi router just can't be arsed? Well, that's the basis for the latest in the Secret Lives Of Objects sketches from Get Pulped,…
© Baby Cow 'I’m part of the furniture - one of the good ones like an elegant sideboard'
Q&A with Alan Partridge as This Time returns
20/04/2021 … For the uninitiated, what can you tell us about This Time? It’s what’s known as a magazine show, bottling all of the magic of magazine reading and…
How Covid disrupted Jason Manford's new gameshow
Comic sent into self-isolation
20/04/2021 … Filming of Jason Manford’s new BBC gameshow Unbeatable was thrown into chaos after the comic was told to self-isolate because of Covid.
Trailer for Inside No 9 series six
20/04/2021 … The BBC has released the first trailer for series six of Inside No 9.
© Fox The Simpsons parody Morrissey... and he's not happy (of course)
'In a world obsessed with Hate Laws, there are none that protect me’
20/04/2021 … The Simpsons have parodied Morrissey – and he’s not happy.
Richard Ayoade to host the Baftas again
With Gbemisola Ikumelo fronting the craft awards
20/04/2021 … Richard Ayoade is to host the Bafta TV awards for a second year.
Victoria Wood’s unseen sketches to be published
'They feel like comedy’s Dead Sea Scrolls'
20/04/2021 … Eighty of Victoria Wood’s previously unseen scripts are to be released this autumn.