Call Jonathan Pie
Review of the spoof news reporter's new BBC radio comedy
09/06/2023 … Has the BBC muted Jonathan Pie? Not directly – but the first venture into radio for Tom Walker’s disillusioned political journalist is an uneasy…
Fri 09 June 2023
© fauxels/Pexels Alternative names for hands
09/06/2023 … Tweets of the week Alternative names for hands: Sleeve udders Flailing cuff rakes The parson’s pasties The "prawn chorus" Mrs.
The Drone Who Shagged Me
09/06/2023 … Technology is taking over all aspects of life – even espionage.
Rhod Gilbert to trek the Atlas Mountains
'Poignant' fundraiser following his cancer treatment
09/06/2023 … Rhod Gilbert is to lead a trek up the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains – the first such hike he has attempted since his cancer diagnosis.
© Break Thru Films/IFC Joan Rivers's archive finds a good home
...including a filing cabinet of 65,000 of her jokes
09/06/2023 … Joan Rivers’s comedy archive – including a filing cabinet containing more than 65,000 of her jokes – has been donated to a museum.
Bill Bailey's a ramblin' man
Comic makes new walking series for More4
09/06/2023 … Bill Bailey is making a new TV show in which he rambles from pub to pub around the UK countryside In each episode of Perfect Pub Walks he will be…
Thu 08 June 2023
Revealed: Monty Python scenes that almost never made it
Film's editor tells how The Black Knight and Biggus Dickus were nearly cut
08/06/2023 … Some of the most memorable scenes in Monty Python’s films almost ended up on the cutting-room floor, their editor has revealed.
Pope Lonergan’s I’ll Die After Bingo to be developed for TV
'Honest, insightful, empathetic' look at life in the care system
08/06/2023 … Pope Lonergan’s book I’ll Die After Bingo, about the comedian’s years working in elderly care, is being developed for TV.