Doing comedy off the circuit...
How stand-up Mark Simmons battled on through a power cut
31/12/2020 … One motto of 2020 has to be ‘the show must go on…’ And when comic Mark Simmons performed a streaming gig last night, he had several…
2020 Punching Up
Thu 31 December 2020
Sun 27 December 2020
© BBC Dawn French: I've been asked to perform exorcisms
Comic cashes in on Vicar Of Dibley character
27/12/2020 … Dawn French says she’s been asked to perform exorcisms, in the guise of the Vicar Of Dibley.
Mon 21 December 2020
Ten of the worst Christmas cracker jokes
21/12/2020 … A greetings card company has released a list of the worst Christmas Cracker jokes – and you might have trouble distinguishing them from some lists…
Sun 20 December 2020
© Sky UK Eddie Izzard: Call me 'she'
Fans praise comic for switching pronouns
20/12/2020 … Fans and fellow comics are congratulating Eddie Izzard for switching to female pronouns.
Fri 18 December 2020
If Scrooge was a stand-up
18/12/2020 … Quote of the week ‘To all critics of stand-up comedy: do you understand that when your piece comes out, we’ve already left town – with the money’…
Thu 17 December 2020
Last night a T.Fey saved my life...
Tina tells of rescuing a kayaker
17/12/2020 … Tina Fey has told how she saved a man's life, after she heard his cries for help in New York’s Hudson River.
Making an exhibition of himself...
Museum buys Peter Kay's purple Amarillo suit
17/12/2020 … The purple suit Peter Kay famously wore in the video for the 2005 Comic Relief single (Is This The Way To) Amarillo has been saved for the nation.
Wed 16 December 2020
Scumbag no more!
Adrian Edmondson takes part in University Challenge... for real
16/12/2020 … What a difference 36 years makes! In 1984 Adrian Edmondson appeared on a fictional version of University Challenge as Vyvyan, representing Scumbag College alongside…