What was the name of Frankie Howerd’s character in Up Pompeii?
25/09/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 25 September 2018
Free stand-up courses for refugees
Training for their debut gig as part of a new arts festival
25/09/2018 … Refugees are to be given training in stand-up comedy as part of a new festival about displacement.
![All he wants to do is [FX: GUNSHOTS] with a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and go on tour | John-Luke Roberts announces 2019 dates](/images/photos/small/jlr_john_luke_roberts_ed18.jpg "All he wants to do is [FX: GUNSHOTS] with a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and go on tour | John-Luke Roberts announces 2019 dates")
All he wants to do is [FX: GUNSHOTS] with a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and go on tour
John-Luke Roberts announces 2019 dates
25/09/2018 … John-Luke Roberts is to take his acclaimed Edinburgh show on the road.
Sky's Comedy Shorts
25/09/2018 … Sky today releases its latest batch of comedy shorts via its on-demand service, ahead of a broadcast on Sky One at 10pm on October 10.
'Channel 4 are my enablers'
Interview with The Bisexual's Desiree Akhavan
25/09/2018 … Next month Channel 4 airs the new comedy-drama from Desiree Akhavan, described as a ‘ raw, funny and unapologetic take on the last taboo’ - bisexuality; Akhavan…
© Montgomery County Planning Commission/CC BY-SA 2.0 Bill Cosby sentenced to three to ten years
Comedian judged a 'sexually violent predator’
25/09/2018 … Bill Cosby has been jailed for three to ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand more than a decade .
Joel Dommett and Nish Kumar flash the flesh
Baring their buttocks in traditional sumo outfits
25/09/2018 … Joel Dommett and Nish Kumar bared their buttocks as they donned revealing sumo outfits for their Comedy Central travelogue.
New comedy production house launched
...by writer Simon Nye and producer Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
25/09/2018 … Comedy writer Simon Nye and former BBC head of comedy Sophie Clarke-Jervoise have launched a new production house.