What is Borat's middle name?
15/10/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 15 October 2024
Now Russell Brand's selling 'magical amulets'
...and one comedy writer had the perfect response
15/10/2024 … Russell Brand is flogging a ‘magical amulet’ that protects you from WiFi signals and other ‘evil energies’.
When Greg Davies was told to tone it down... by the Chuckle Brothers!
But he got paid £1,000 to play Henry VIII
15/10/2024 … It’s not exactly the most naturalistic show on TV – but Greg Davis was told his performance was too big for the Chuckle Brothers.
© BBC Rob Brydon to be 'puppet master' on competition show Destitnation X
Contestants have to figure our where they've been dumped
15/10/2024 … Rob Brydon has been named the host of BBC One’s upcoming adventure reality series, Destination X In the show, contestants are bundled into a blacked-out…
Channel 4 orders panel show with social media stars
Specs Gonzalez to host Hear Me Out
15/10/2024 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new comedy panel show featuring online personalities airing their controversial opinions.
Mon 14 October 2024
Laura wins an award for Lexxelence
And Ariel Hebditch best newcomer at the Women in Comedy Festival
14/10/2024 … Laura Lexx’s Slinky was named best show at the Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester last night.
New publication date for Ivo Graham’s first book
Yardsticks For Failure put back to May
14/10/2024 … A new release date has been set for Ivo Graham’s first book, exploring his 'professional meltdowns’ and ‘general bedlam of his life’.
Radio 4 to air its first Northern Irish sitcom
Parish Matters features the strange goings-on of a border town
14/10/2024 … Radio 4 has commissioned what’s thought to be its first sitcom ever to be made in Northern Ireland.