Another comedy tour bonanza
Nine announced in the last 36 hours
28/10/2025 … Nine comedy tours have been announced in the last 36 hours, including Taskmaster stars Mike Wozniak and Maisie Adam, and podcast king Adam Rowe.
Tue 28 October 2025
BBC to rerun Fawlty Towers episode
28/10/2025 … An episode of Fawlty Towers is to air on BBC One tonight in tribute to Prunella Scales, following her death yesterday at the age of 83.
Who sang the theme tune to Twenty Twelve?
28/10/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Kate Berlant returns to the UK
Two Soho Theatre Walthamstow dates announced
28/10/2025 … American comedian Kate Berlant is to play the Soho Theatre Walthamstow next year, playing to her biggest audience yet in the UK.
© Channel 4 Prunella Scales: Seven classic performances
Clips from her decades-long career
28/10/2025 … As Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies at 93, here's just a small selection of clips from her long career.
© BBC Prunella Scales dies at 93
She had been had been watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.
28/10/2025 … Prunella Scales, who will forever be known as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93.
© House of Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Jeremy Corbyn does panto
Former Labour leader is the Wizard of Oz-lington
28/10/2025 … Jeremy Corbyn is to star in pantomime.
No, there was never going to be a 1960s-set Blackadder Five
Ben Elton says a new installment is 'cosmically unlikely'
28/10/2025 … Ben Elton has scoffed at the idea of a Swinging Sixties revival of Blackadder and says a fifth series is ‘cosmically unlikely’.