© BBC/Leopard Pictures/Matt Burlem 25/05/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Comic was told 'it's too silly, we can’t have that'
25/05/2021 … Bill Bailey one put forward a song for Eurovision – which the BBC rejected for being ‘too silly’.
Hamper full of references to the sitcom
25/05/2021 … Could this hamper BE any more timely? In what could be the ultimate gift for Friends fans, this collection contains two dozen items inspired by the hit sitcom.
© Matt Humphrey Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s West End performance filmed by the National Theatre
25/05/2021 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s stage performance of Fleabag is to broadcast on Amazon Prime next month.
© Two Rivers Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain headline
25/05/2021 … Salisbury is to stage its first comedy festival – a day-long outdoor event headlined by Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain.
...and what is it they can't say, asks Robin Ince
25/05/2021 … One of the great tricks of the powerful is to hold all the power while also playing the part of the oppressed.
25/05/2021 … Iain Stirling and his presenter wife Laura Whitmore; Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aléshé, and Gyles Brandreth & Maureen Lipman are all…
© BBC 24/05/2021 … One of the more subdued entries in the Inside No 9 canon, Lip Service takes place in a gloomy and uninviting hotel room where Felix, a sad data entry manager, is…
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