© BBC Who was Sybill always on the phone to in Fawlty Towers?
05/09/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2023 Archives
Tue 05 September 2023
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A guy booked me to perform stand-up just for him and his date
Esther Manito's most memorable gigs
05/09/2023 … Esther Manito kicks off a UK tour of her latest show, Hell Hath No Fury, in Southend on Friday, following a run at the Soho Theatre in London last month.
The best reviewed comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe? Buffy Revamped
Ed Byrne's Tragedy Plus Time is the best new show
05/09/2023 … A one-man run-through of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer canon was the best-reviewed comedy show of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
© Capital Radio Joel Dommett on harvesting liquid gold
Comic speaks about his wife's pregnancy ahead of the NTAs
05/09/2023 … Joel Dommett says he probably won’t be going to the National Television Awards after-party tonight as his wife Hannah Cooper is heavily pregnant.
© CPL Productions/Sky Mo Gilligan joins A League Of Their Own
Comedian to be a regular on Sky's sports quiz
05/09/2023 … Mo Gilligan has signed up to be a regular panellist on Sky’s A League Of Their Own.
Mon 04 September 2023
© Matt Holyoak Comedy shows cancelled amid concrete crisis
RAAC found in theatres, prompting fears of crumbling ceilings
04/09/2023 … Stand-up shows by the likes of Tim Vine, Phil Wang and Jimmy Carr as the lightweight concrete crisis spreads from schools to theatres.
Newport hosts another Festival Of Comedy
Major gig for Wales this November
04/09/2023 … Newport in Wales is to host another Festival Of Comedy in November Omid Djalili, Seann Walsh, Jamali Maddix, Lou Sanders, Marcus Brigstocke, Hal Cruttenden…
New podcast from Robin Ince
04/09/2023 … Robin Ince is co-hosting a new podcast in which guests talk about their most inspiring figures.