© UKTV/Mark Johnson Lenny Henry looks at race in comedy
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
13/10/2019 … The week's best comedy on radio and TV.
Sun 13 October 2019
© UKTV/Mark Johnson 
Saturday Night Live's Joker parody
Another gritty anti-hero origin story
13/10/2019 … Inspired by Joker, Saturday Night Live came up with their own 'gritty anti-hero origin story' last night.
Wretched, isn't it?
Stephen Moore, the voice of Marvin The Paranoid Android, dies at 81
13/10/2019 … Stephen Moore – the actor who voiced Marvin The Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy– has died aged 81 He played the…
Sat 12 October 2019
© BBC Saturday Night's Alright (for fighting for your place in Strictly)
Chris Ramsey in jeopardy, just three from bottom
12/10/2019 … Chris Ramsey equalled his highest score from judges on Strictly Come Dancing tonight - but still came third from bottom of the leaderboard.
Pick up the Heavy Pencil
New podcast from Anna Crilly and Tony Gardiner, and the rest of the week's comedy on demand
12/10/2019 … The week’s new comedy on demand… Heavy Pencil Comedy actors Anna Crilly and her Lead Balloon co-star Tony Gardiner have created this new character-led…
Fri 11 October 2019
Revealed: the comic who came up with Wagatha Christie
Dan Atkinson says he's had marriage proposals
11/10/2019 … Comedian Dan Atkinson has been revealed as the man who coined the phrase ‘Wagatha Christie’.
The Day Shall Come
11/10/2019 … How to effectively satirise a world in which Donald Trump is President vexes some of the greatest minds of the artform.
Frank Skinner: Showbiz
Tour review by Steve Bennett at G Live, Guildford
11/10/2019 … He was the face of the lad comics who dominated the 1990s, talking football on the telly and sex, in graphic detail, on stage.