QI on celebrity scents
With Sally Phillips, Ross Noble and Nish Kumar
16/11/2017 … Sally Phillips, Ross Noble, Alan Davies and Nish Kumar have a nose for trivia in tomorrow's edition of QI,In one round of the episode, entitled Odorous and Odious,…
Thu 16 November 2017
Why we need to keep mocking Donald Trump
...even if the jokes aren't always funny
16/11/2017 … Comedians need to keep making jokes about Donald Trump – even if it’s hard to be original and near-impossible to exaggerate his failings for comic effect.
Scot Squad patrols River City
Mash-up sketch for Children In Need
16/11/2017 … Scot Squad and River City have joined together for a mash-up sketch for BBC's Children In Need.
Fist of Fun's 'Pie Master' dies
Bill Cashmore was also a writer and corporate speak
16/11/2017 … Actor Bill Cashmore – whose credits include Lee & Herring’s Fist Of Fun, Brass Eye and Men Behaving Badly – has died in his mid-50s.
Bah humbug! Comics unleash their inner Grinches
16/11/2017 … Mark Watson, Ellie Taylor and Richard Gadd are among the comics taking part in a new TV stand-up show in which they air their pet peeves about Christmas.
Peter Kay announces new tour
16/11/2017 … Peter Kay is to embark on his first stand-up tour in eight years.
Wed 15 November 2017
Richard Herring's new way of fundraising
Kickstarter launches a subscription service, Drip
15/11/2017 … Richard Herring has become the first British comedian to join a new Kickstarter service that allows fans to set up regular subscriptions.
How I've felt threatened as a woman on the comedy scene
Samantha Pressdee on the ways she has been undermined
15/11/2017 … Solidarity to all the women who have ever felt threatened on the comedy scene.