'It's really disorienting!'
Lena Dunham on blurring fact and fiction in her new romcom
25/06/2025 … Lena Dunham has found great success by mining her own experiences for comedy – but not everyone is happy about it.
2025 Archives
Wed 25 June 2025
Rob Beckett cancels Scottish gigs
Comic 'not well enough to give you the best show'
25/06/2025 … Rob Beckett has cancelled two gigs in Scotland this week after falling ill.
Katherine Ryan joins The Bad Guys 2
25/06/2025 … Katherine Ryan has voiced a cameo role in the new action-comedy animation, The Bad Guys 2.
© Aemen Sukkar / Jiksaw Judi Love announces a new tour
All About The Love hits the road in early 2026
25/06/2025 … Judi Love has announced her second UK stand-up tour, with 32 dates in early 2026.
© David Reiss Mathew Horne to star in Britpop play
As a key music exec in the Oasis vs Blur battle
25/06/2025 … Mathew Horne is to play a Britpop music executive in the midst of the Blur vs Oasis feud of the 1990s.
'The world is a duller place without her'
Tributes paid to comedy producer Joanna Beresford after her death at 68
25/06/2025 … Tributes have been paid to TV comedy producer Joanna Beresford following her death at 68.
Tue 24 June 2025
© ITV plc Transaction
Review of Jordan Gray's new ITV2 sitcom
24/06/2025 … Depending on which echo chamber you inhabit, trans people are usually portrayed as either noble victims or society-destroying predators.
© BBC In Extras, which celebrity does Andy Millman play tennis with?
Anyone for tennis.... related quiz questions about comedy?
24/06/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.