© BBC What is the name of Mrs Slocombe's pussy?
09/11/2021 … 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 09 November 2021
© BBC Sun 07 November 2021
© UKTV 'You have to be more open-minded and try things'
Q&A with Sara Pascoe on the return of Comedians Giving Lectures
07/11/2021 … What can we expect from the second series of Comedians Giving Lectures? I think all of the comedians have really pushed themselves and understood what we were…
Wed 03 November 2021
What was the name of Tom and Barbara’s chicken in The Good Life?
Try our trivia quiz... with a special environmental theme
03/11/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 02 November 2021
'Important messages wrapped up in dick jokes... '
In My Skin writer Kayleigh Llewellyn on the return of her BBC comedy
02/11/2021 … The Bafta-winning comedy-drama In My Skin, about Welsh teenager Bethan (Gabrielle Creevy), leading a double life as she negotiates a mentally ill mother and…
Mon 01 November 2021
© Bermix Studio/Unsplash Cancel culture vs free speech? It's nothing new
Archives show just how long comedy has been at the centre of this battle
01/11/2021 … The tension between ‘cancel culture’ and freedom of speech seems like a very modern issue.
Sun 31 October 2021
© BBC/Leopard Films Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook reunite in Worzel Gummidge
See the many faces of Jones' characters...
31/10/2021 … It’s not the first time Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook have been filmed in a field, And next weekend the Detectorists duo are reunited in a new story in…
Thu 28 October 2021
In tribute to Hovis Presley
Extract from Forgotten Heroes of Comedy by Robert Ross
28/10/2021 … A hefty new book out today, Forgotten Heroes of Comedy, is the culmination of a long-term passion project from comedy historian Robert Ross,…
Wed 27 October 2021
‘I’m not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government'
Andre Vincent pays tribute to Mort Sahl
27/10/2021 … ‘Is there any group here I haven’t offended?’ The political climate of the 1950s should have been ripe for comedy satire.