Ed and Oucho make comeback
Comic and his CBBC cactus sidekick make a YouTube return
03/09/2019 … Ed and Oucho – the CBBC presenting duo of comedian Ed Petrie and a talking cactus – has been revived after almost a decade away.
Tue 03 September 2019
Greg Burns gets a new radio gig
03/09/2019 … Comedian and radio presenter Greg Burns is to host a new Saturday morning show across the Hits Radio Network.
Did the Pythons predict Brexit?
Their Fat Ignorant Bastards had certainly 'had enough of experts'
03/09/2019 … Did Monty Python predict Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump? Possibly not but a newly released ‘lost’ sketch shows that they were mocking an…
© Eduardo Unda-Sanzana/CC BY-SA 2.0 'I hate the way Monty Python is remembered fondly'
Eric Idle says he would rather the show annoy people
03/09/2019 … Few TV comedies are celebrated 50 years after their launch.
Mon 02 September 2019
At last... the best ever collection of these Python precursors
Unprecedented six-year quest to recover lost episodes
02/09/2019 … The most complete versions of the two sketch shows that led to Monty Python are to be released on DVD later this month.
A Hitch In Time by Andy Smart
02/09/2019 … Andy Smart is these days best known as one of the Comedy Store Players.
Up Pompeii! to make a comeback
New audio recording to mark 50 years of the Frankie Howerd classic
02/09/2019 … Frankie Howerd’s Up Pompeii! is to be revived as a new audio recording, 50 years after the ancient Roman comedy first aired.
© Fremantle Media/Talkback 'We explain quantum entanglement with a banana'
Sandi Toksvig on the Q series of QI
02/09/2019 … What can we expect from the new series of QI? Well, what’s fantastic about it is that it’s the letter Q so it’s the Q of QI, which is a marvellous…