2025 Archives

Wed 24 September 2025

First look at Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets

With Michael Palin and Pearce Quigley

24/09/2025 … Here is Mackenzie Crook from the set of his new BBC comedy Small Prophets.

Taskmaster makes the Beano

Greg Davies and Alex Horne immortalised in Minnie The Minx comic strip

24/09/2025 … Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne have been immortalised in the Beano.

'No one should have to go the way Bobby did'

Tommy Cannon explores his grief in new memoirs

24/09/2025 … Tommy Cannon has spoken emotively about feeling ‘helpless’ and becoming ‘withdrawn’ following the death of his comedy partner Bobby Ball.

'Riyadh comics must speak out against human rights abuses'

Otherwise they'll be helping regime 'launder' its image, says pressure group

24/09/2025 … Campaign group Human Rights Watch has called on comedians playing the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival to call on the Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained…

Jimmy Kimmel returns

'It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man'

24/09/2025 … Jimmy Kimmel returned to air last night, calling government threats to silence comedians ‘anti-American’.

Tue 23 September 2025

In which street was Spaced set?

Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz... all about the comedies of 1999

23/09/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.