John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme to return
Recording dates set for series eight
30/01/2019 … Acclaimed Radio 4 sketch show John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme is to return for an eighth series.
Wed 30 January 2019
© Channel 4 Stars join Matt Berry's Year Of The Rabbit
Keeley Hawes, Sally Phillips and more head for the 'Victorian-era Sweeney'
30/01/2019 … Production has started on Matt Berry’s new Victorian era police comedy, with an impressive list of stars joining the cast.
Tue 29 January 2019
Remembering Linda Smith
A dozen of her best jokes on what would have been her birthday
29/01/2019 … Linda Smith would have been 61 years old today, had she not died as a consequence of ovarian cancer at the age of 48.
© BBC What was the name of Frank Spencer’s mother-in-law?
29/01/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz, now in multiple choice format and- compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© Channel 4 The Inbetweeners reunion was so bad it's killed off the chances of a third movie
'I don’t want to have to apologise again' says star James Buckley
29/01/2019 … Channel 4's Inbetweeners reunion night was so disastrous it has killed any chance of a third movie in the franchise.
Stand comedy clubs get a new MD
Arts centre bossMike Jones takes over from long-serving Kenny O'brien
29/01/2019 … The Stand comedy clubs have announced a replacement for Kenny O’Brien, its long-serving general manager.
© ust For Laughs/ Susan Moss Photography Netflix comedian accused of widespread joke theft
Dossier of alleged plagiarism by Gad Elmaleh
29/01/2019 … The world’s biggest French-speaking stand-up has been accused of stealing jokes from comedians including George Carlin, Steven Wright and Richard Pryor.
See Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade in the Lego Movie 2
Stars' casting as a vampire and an ice cream cone revealed
29/01/2019 … Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade have lent their voices to the new Lego 2 movie, it has been announced today.