What was Spike Milligan's real first name?
20/04/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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Tue 20 April 2021
© Baby Cow 'I’m part of the furniture - one of the good ones like an elegant sideboard'
Q&A with Alan Partridge as This Time returns
20/04/2021 … For the uninitiated, what can you tell us about This Time? It’s what’s known as a magazine show, bottling all of the magic of magazine reading and…
Mon 19 April 2021
How Covid has decimated comedy
...and it's not expected to end soon, new survey reveals
19/04/2021 … Half of people working in comedy have lost 50 per cent or more of their income in the last year.
Tue 13 April 2021
© BBC What was Mrs Richards' first name in Fawlty Towers?
13/04/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 06 April 2021
What was WC Fields' first name?
06/04/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© C4 Many of us slag off our country, but actually, it is beautiful and amazing...
Rosie Jones on her new Channel 4 travel series Trip Hazard
06/04/2021 … Rosie Jones’s UK travelogue Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure, comes to Channel 4 this Friday.
Wed 31 March 2021
All hail the Legends Of Lockdown!
Full list of Chortle Award winners
31/03/2021 … All the winners of this year's Chortle Awards have now been announced.
'The greatest thing to happen during lockdown'
Our final collection of those who helped us laugh through the pandemic
31/03/2021 … Here’s our final round-up of the luminaries of lockdown, some of the streaming gigs, social media feeds, podcasts and more who have done so much to provide…