© Andrew Hurley/CC BY-SA 2.0 2019 Punching Up
Fri 27 December 2019
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© BBC Clean laughs
Were the University Challenge audience 'rude' to laugh at Lucy Beaumont's qualification?
27/12/2019 … Lucy Beaumont got a laugh on University Challenge last night - but not one she was expected.
You go, gull...
Revealed: The high cost of putting a seagull in your sitcom
27/12/2019 … Most people would consider seagulls an unwelcome seaside intrusion.
Fri 20 December 2019
Christmas is coming...
20/12/2019 … Tweets of the week Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat shamed.
Have a drink on Eric!
Bar named after Morecambe in the venue where he last performed
20/12/2019 … The venue where Eric Morecambe gave his last performance has renamed in his honour.
Tue 17 December 2019
© Ryan Lash / TED Just call him Nostradamus Djalili
Comic thought of hiding in a fridge to avoid politics long before Boris
17/12/2019 … It was one of the more bizarre moments of the election campaign – Boris Johnson hiding in a dairy's fridge to avoid questioning from a journalist…
Mon 16 December 2019
I have an Ellie-bi!
Police want to question comic's doppelganger
16/12/2019 … Ellie Taylor has been forced to reassure fans she’s not a criminal – after police released an image of a lookalike they want to question over a purse…
Opening their art
Comedians' exhibition gets under way
16/12/2019 … Some of comedy’s famous names turned out for an exhibition of art by fellow comedians last night.