Review of the charming new film comedy with Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan
27/05/2025 … Beautifully observed and effortlessly charming, The Ballad of Wallis Island is a melodic, delicately meditative comedy about love and loss that could have been insufferably…
Fred McAlpine flies the flag...
27/05/2025 … Let’s get one thing out of the way: British comedy is the best comedy in the world.
27/05/2025 … Here are a couple of stand-ups talking about a new notion called ‘prompt theory’ – the idea some people have that they are AI creations…
27/05/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
With Greg Davies and Alex Horne
27/05/2025 … Here’s the first batch of outtakes from season 19 of Taskmaster.
Special programmes in honour of the late comedy producer
27/05/2025 … Radio 4 is to pay tribute to the late comedy producer Bill Dare in three special programmes next month.
We can be more distinctive and creative, programme-makers say
27/05/2025 … Britain’s TV comedy producers are not only accepting the reality that they’ll have to make shows on a shoestring budget - but finding the positives in…
27/05/2025 … An authorised biography of Rik Mayall is to be published… but not until March 2028 on what would have been his 70th birthday.
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