What was the real name of The Rumpo Kid?
17/09/2019 … 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 17 September 2019
Fri 13 September 2019
'I have forever changed an obscure part of Italian comedy'
Ed Aczel shares his Unforgettable 5 gigs
13/09/2019 … Ed Aczel has shot a film with fellow comedian Joz Norris in which they play a ‘low-rent Ocean’s Eleven’ trying to steel a vending machine.
Thu 12 September 2019
© Jaimie Gramston Win tickets to Billy Connolly's Sex Life Of Bandages in your local cinema
Plus DVDs and books up for grabs
12/09/2019 … Billy Connolly’s live show The Sex Life Of Bandages is to be screened in cinemas next month, a few days before an anthology of his stand-up anecdotes are published.
Tue 10 September 2019
The ultimate Monty Python trivia quiz
10/09/2019 … It's a very special installment of our weekly trivia quiz today, as regular compiler Hayden Parker has come up with 50 questions linked to Monty Python to mark…
'Clever. Interesting. Silly.'
Sara Pascoe on her new series Comedians Giving Lectures
10/09/2019 … What interested you in Comedians Giving Lectures? I really wanted to be in charge.
Wed 04 September 2019
Ten comedians who died on stage
...as a new book chronicles performers who died with their boots on
04/09/2019 … From the most famous – Tommy Cooper – to the most recent – Ian Cognito – comedians who die on stage hold a special fascination.
Tue 03 September 2019
© UKTV How tall is little Alex Horne?
Try our Taskmaster-themed Tuesday Trivia Quiz
03/09/2019 … As Taskmaster returns to Dave for a ninth series tomorrow.
Mon 02 September 2019
© Fremantle Media/Talkback 'We explain quantum entanglement with a banana'
Sandi Toksvig on the Q series of QI
02/09/2019 … What can we expect from the new series of QI? Well, what’s fantastic about it is that it’s the letter Q so it’s the Q of QI, which is a marvellous…