Bill Bailey leads new batch of iPlayer comedies
Films from loads of familiar names
23/01/2015 … A host of top comedy names, led by Bill Bailey, are making new comedy shorts for the BBC iPlayer.
Fri 23 January 2015
Radio 4 to air Edinburgh's best newcomer
Alex Edelman records new version of Millennial
23/01/2015 … Edinburgh best newcomer Alex Edelman is to have his own Radio 4 show.
'I love stand-up, but I want to do something different'
Mark Thomas on comedy, protest and passion
23/01/2015 … The news that Pub Landlord Al Murray is to contest this year’s election in Nigel Farage’s constituency might be blurring the distinction between comedy and…
Talksport to me
Novak's Terry Tibbs to host radio phone-in
23/01/2015 … Kayvan Novak is to host a show on Talksport radio in the guise of his Fonejacker wheeler-dealer alter-ego, Terry Tibbs.
Thu 22 January 2015
Guffaw Comedy Club with Paul Tonkinson
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Underdog Art Gallery
22/01/2015 … Beneath the railway arches near London Bridge station, the new home of long-running Guffaw Comedy Club has the makeshift feel of a hastily put-together Fringe venue.
Pauline Yates, aka Mrs Reggie Perrin, dies at 85
Also starred in Keep It In The Family
22/01/2015 … Pauline Yates, who played the long-suffering Elizabeth Perrin in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, has died at the age of 85.