What was the name of Austin Powers' dad?
11/06/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 11 June 2019
New comedy agency launched
By the promoter behind Laugh Til It Hurts
11/06/2019 … Comedy promoter Jeremy Banks has started a new management agency.
Finalists named in Manford’s new act competition
11/06/2019 … The finalists have been announced in the new act of the year competition run by Manford’s Comedy Club.
Comedians take on the Crystal Maze
Vic Reeves, Al Murray and more in celebrity specials
11/06/2019 … A host of comedians are taking part in a new celebrity series of The Crystal Maze, Channel 4 has announced.
Dropped: Planned sitcom with Jennifer Saunders as Harry Hill's mum
...as he reveals who he asked to replace him on TV Burp
11/06/2019 … TV viewers will never get to see Jennifer Saunders as Harry Hill’s mum – as a planned sitcom about the big-collared comic’s home life has…
© BBC Filming starts on Young Offenders series 2
11/06/2019 … Filming has begun in Cork for the second series of BBC Three comedy The Young Offenders.
New book from Stewart Lee
March Of The Lemmings is the work 'the Brexit era deserves'
11/06/2019 … Stewart Lee is to release a new book based on his Observer newspaper columns March Of The Lemmings is described by publisher Faber as ‘the scathing,…
Sara Pascoe to make a new BBC Two travel show
Seeking the world’s most endangered jobs
11/06/2019 … Sara Pascoe is to make a new travel show for BBC Two in which she tries to find the world’s most endangered jobs.