Saturday Night Live should be shut down
16/10/2016 … Long-running American comedy show Saturday Night Live is part of the media ‘rigging’ the American Presidential election and should be axed, Donald Trump has…
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© Rose d'Or Revealed: John Cleese's new BBC comedy
15/10/2016 … More details have emerged of John Cleese’s first BBC comedy for almost 40 years.
Summer Wine's Aunty Wainwright dies
Oh, and Jean Alexander was in Corrie, too
15/10/2016 … Jean Alexander, who played Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine has died at the age of 90.
Watch the fur fly...
15/10/2016 … The week's best comedy on demand:MascotsChristopher Guest doesn't exactly break his mould with his latest mockumentary, set like Best in Show or A Mighty Wind, in…
Fri 14 October 2016
Arnold Brown at 80
Tribute to alternative comedy's elder statesman
14/10/2016 … A star-studded line-up of comedy stars is to celebrate alternative stand-up legend's Arnold Brown's 80th birthday next month.
Armando Iannucci writes robot comedy
14/10/2016 … Armando Iannucci has written a comedy movie about inept robots trying to take over the world.
© Bafta Ricky Gervais sells out instantly
14/10/2016 … TICKETS for a Ricky Gervais warm-up gig sold out instantly this morning.
