© BBC/Happy Tramp North 06/10/2026 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
06/10/2026 … It seems like half of Manchester’s Irish expat community has come out to see Emer Maguire on her first UK visit as a touring comedian.
With Bianca Del Rio and Lee Peart announcing new tours, too
06/10/2026 … The Fast Show team have announced a new run of dates for 2027.
06/10/2026 … Like his facial hair, Nick Helm’s CV is growing – as he becomes the hirsute face of Movember.
© Harald Krichel / WikiPortraits Guest stars for James Corden and Ruth Jones's new comedy announced
06/10/2026 … Hannah Waddingham, James McAvoy and Jim Broadbent will guest star in James Corden and Ruth Jones’s The Choir, it has been revealed.
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
06/10/2026 … Like many an immigrant comedian, Stanela Khalil understandably uses her status as a cultural inbetweener to drive her comedy – too Irish for Beirut, too Lebanese…
© BBC New sitcom about a crumbling country house
06/10/2026 … James Nesbitt has joined the cast of Hopley Hall, a new six-part BBC comedy set in a crumbling stately home on the County Antrim coast.
© BBC End of the line for long-running shows Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game
06/10/2026 … The BBC has axed two long-running Northern Irish comedy shows: Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game.
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