Celebrating The Royle Family's Silver Jubilee
Gold to revamp documentary with Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash
01/08/2023 … Comedy channel Gold has ordered a two-hour documentary to mark 25 years of The Royle Family.
Tue 01 August 2023
© BBC 'I prepared for MasterChef by burning two kitchens down'
Shazia Mirza on entering the BBC cookery programme
01/08/2023 … Shazia Mirza appears on Celebrity Masterchef next week – starting at 9pm on Wednesday August 9.
Mon 31 July 2023
Should we be laughing at the climate crisis?
Stuart Goldsmith on finding laughs as the world burns
31/07/2023 … The world’s on fire and we all know it, and we all know we’re not taking action fast enough.
© Netflix Pee-wee Herman comic Paul Reubens dies at 70
Comedian kept his cancer fight a secret
31/07/2023 … Paul Reubens, the American comedian behind Pee-wee Herman, has died at the age 70 following a secret fight with cancer.
'There’s nothing quite like witnessing the buzz that travels round Edinburgh when a new act is about to break big'
Jack Docherty picks his comedy favourites
31/07/2023 … Scot Squad and Absolutely star Jack Docherty is at the Edinburgh Fringe from Wednesday performing David Bowie And Me: Parallel Lives – about his teenage…
© Matt Stronge 'I wish I had the confidence to use a pipette in front of people in swimwear'
Ian Smith's Edinburgh Fringe binge, cringe and whinge...
31/07/2023 … Ian Smith is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Crushing at Monkey Barrel at the Tron at 1.
Scatterbrain by Shaparak Khorsandi
Comedian's account of living with undiagnosed ADHD
31/07/2023 … The very subtitle of Scatterbrain – ‘how I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer’ –…