Adam Buxton records his first music album
28/05/2025 … Adam Buxton is to release his debut music album, Buckle Up, this autumn, with the first single, Pizza Time out today.
2025 Archives
Wed 28 May 2025
© BBC Studios Death Valley intrigues 2.9m viewers
Most successful new BBC comedy launch in five years
28/05/2025 … Death Valley has become the most-watched new BBC scripted comedy title in five years.
© Natasha Pszenicki Bridget Christie announces a new tour
As do Desiree Burch, Jessica Fostekew, Michael and Hilary Whitehall and Matt Parker
28/05/2025 … Bridget Christie, Desiree Burch, Jessica Fostekew, Michael and Hilary Whitehall and Matt Parker have all announced tours today.
© HBO Hacks to return for series 5
HBO comedy renewed as season 4 draws to an end
28/05/2025 … Hacks is to return for a fifth season, charting the attempts of fictional comedy veteran Deborah Vance to dominate late-night TV.
Jimmy Carr launches Netflix podcast
With comedians pitching obscure movie ideas
28/05/2025 … Jimmy Carr has launched a new comedy podcast with Netflix.
Tue 27 May 2025
Cult podcast CheapShow release a vinyl album
As they celebrate their tenth anniversary
27/05/2025 … Cult comedy podcast CheapShow is to release a vinyl record to mark its tenth birthday.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Review of the charming new film comedy with Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan
27/05/2025 … Beautifully observed and effortlessly charming, The Ballad of Wallis Island is a melodic, delicately meditative comedy about love and loss that could have been insufferably…
Britain is funnier. Deal with it, America
Fred McAlpine flies the flag...
27/05/2025 … Let’s get one thing out of the way: British comedy is the best comedy in the world.