Mrs Brown's Boys is a pioneer of wokeness
Says its creator Brendan O'Carroll
29/10/2021 … It’s not usually hailed as being a trailblazer for progressive thinking – but Mrs Brown’s Boys has been a pioneer in political correctness, its…
Fri 29 October 2021
Wed 27 October 2021
In it for the money!
Paddy McGuinness reveals what drove him to comedy
27/10/2021 … Ever wonder what drove Paddy McGuinness to take up comedy? Perhaps an artistic compulsion to get his vision across? Or a psychological need to win the approval of…
Mon 25 October 2021
The Office to be immortalised in Lego
New set planned based on US sitcom
25/10/2021 … The staff and Scanton offices of Dunder Mifflin are set to be immortalised in Lego.
Comedians in ping-pong ding-dong
Stars in live table tennis contest
25/10/2021 … Forget Monkey Tennis, Alan Partridge’s desperate TV show pitch, how about Comedian Table Tennis? Comics including former Taskmaster contestants Tim…
Fri 22 October 2021
© Solen Feyissa/Pexels Never meet your heroes...
22/10/2021 … Tweets of the week Damn, I must have left my set list in Tesco.
© BBC Sir Ian McKellen: I watch my episode of Extras to cheer myself up
'One of the best scripts I have ever had to learn'
22/10/2021 … Sir Ian McKellen says that whenever he needs cheering up, he watches himself in Extras.
Tue 19 October 2021
© Matt Crockett Joe Lycett: I'm hounded by a ghost dog
Comic reckons spirit makes mutts pee in his doorway
19/10/2021 … Joe Lycett reckons his house his haunted by a ghost dog.
Fri 15 October 2021
Rob Beckett: My worst corporate gig
...and how he never met middle-class people until he went to the Edinburgh Fringe
15/10/2021 … Rob Beckett says he hadn’t met any middle-class people until he went to the Edinburgh Fringe.