How schweet is your knowledge of 1988 comedy?
02/07/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 02 July 2024
Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh start shooting Only Child
BBC's new Scottish-based father-son comedy
02/07/2024 … Filming has begun on BBC One’s new Scottish-based father-son comedy Only Child.
© Ray Burmiston How the cost of living crisis is impacting the Edinburgh Fringe
A view from Dylan Emery, actor, director, producer and... financial journalist?
02/07/2024 … If you want to go to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to make money, then either you are either a) a well-established act with tight cost controls or b) a pickpocket.
Jimmy Carr hits 1m YouTube subscribers
One special has 23million viewers
02/07/2024 … Jimmy Carr’s YouTube channel has hit one million subscribers.
Vote Grumby
02/07/2024 … Voters both sides of the Atlantic might despair at the choices facing them at the ballot box.
© Max Payne Comedy Arcade announces its first Fringe guests
Competitive anecdotes in Edinburgh
02/07/2024 … The Comedy Arcade panel show has announced its first guests for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe run.
Chris Fleming: Luxury movie theatre
02/07/2024 … Chris Fleming sings about the experience of going to a luxury movie theatre in hit new live clip.
© BBC How executives wanted to axe Fleabag's Andrew Scott
Revelation as TV executives mull the future of sitcom
02/07/2024 … American executives wanted to axe ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott from Fleabag, a former BBC comedy chief has revealed.