© Jacqui Double The founders of Alternative Cabaret reminisce...
07/05/2019 … In 1979, Tony Allen and Alexei Sayle set up a collective of politically motivated performers called Alternative Cabaret, with ethos borrowed from…
© Netflix 07/05/2019 … Ricky Gervais has finished the first draft for a second series of After Life.
© Amy Schumer/Instagram ...if you haven't had enough baby news for one day
07/05/2019 … If you aren't already sick of baby news – just 23 pages on the new Sussex in the Daily Mail – here's a little more.
Second series for C5 travelogue
06/05/2019 … Susan Calman is to make a second series of her Channel 5 travelogue.
![Alexei Sayle: Jeremy Corbyn trapped me in a cupboard | He tried to talk to me, and I was like 'yeah, whatever\](/images/photos/small/jeremy_corbyn.jpg "Alexei Sayle: Jeremy Corbyn trapped me in a cupboard | He tried to talk to me, and I was like 'yeah, whatever\")
© Gary Knight / Creative Commons He tried to talk to me, and I was like 'yeah, whatever\
06/05/2019 … Alexei Sayle has revealed he was once stuck in a cupboard with Jeremy Corbyn.
Alexei Sayle on the birth of alternative comedy
06/05/2019 … Forty years after the Comedy Store opened and the alternative comedy boom started, pioneer Alexei Sayle sat down at the Alternative Comedy Now conference to discuss…
David Baddiel recalls a trip to Auschwitz
06/05/2019 … David Baddiel has been asked to present a BBC documentary about Holocaust denial – prompting him to recall a visit to Auschwitz in which the mood of solemn…
...but Prince Philip defused the tension
06/05/2019 … Fiona O’Loughlin has revealed that she once dropped the F-bomb in front of the Queen and Prince Philip.
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