© BBC 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.
On Nigerian stereotypes and getting in trouble at work
01/07/2024 … Here’s Dublin-based Nigerian comic Emman Idama joking about being an email scammer – and being the only black kid in his school.
Footage from Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring in their student days
01/07/2024 … Early comedy performances from the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin and Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are to be made available for the first time in a new…
Aaron Twitchen says moving out of the capital made him a better comic
01/07/2024 … For too long, London has been seen as the centre of the comedy industry.
30/06/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/06/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Now MARK WATSON: THE INFINITE SHOW: The comic’s 2018 stand-up show about trying…
© UKTV/Jack Margerison Adrian Edmondson's run-in with the encylopaedia
30/06/2024 … Adrian Edmondson says he never trusts Wikipedia – because it gets facts about him wrong.
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