© Donald Cooper / Alamy Gerard Clough compares Trevor Griffiths’ imagined evening class with today’s stand-up courses
08/09/2025 … I didn’t see the original 1975 production of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians at Nottingham Playhouse but did catch it on TV a little later in a Play For…
08/09/2025 … Work is set to start on Graham Linehan’s next comedy project within weeks, despite his legal woes.
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy Pair will play siblings in show called The Choir
08/09/2025 … James Corden and Ruth Jones’s new Apple TV show is to be called The Choir.
...while trying to beat Alex Horne at table-tennis
08/09/2025 … Alex Horne interviews Maisie Adam ahead of the new series of Taskmaster this week.
© Lore Photography Review of comedian Bill Posley's account of serving in the US military
08/09/2025 … Bill Posley is not your stereotypical soldier: a gentle, easy-going, unathletic type who seems more likely to be battling gluten than Al Qaeda.
© UKTV/Gareth Gatrell Writer Doug Naylor reveals he was told to stop work in the script
08/09/2025 … Plans for another 90-minute Red Dwarf special have been quietly dropped, writer Doug Naylor has revealed.
© Patrick Olner How to get free tickets for the Bradford climax
08/09/2025 … The BBC has announced that the final of its 2025 New Comedy Awards will be taking place at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre on October 17.
Huge raft of new shows, pilots, stand-up specials and recommissions announced
08/09/2025 … Radio 4 has announced a new slate of comedy commissions from Omid Djalili, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Alistair Green, Slim, Ayoade Bamgboye and Pierre Novellie and more.
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