Ellen DeGeneres to perform UK shows
After admitting she was 'a little bit bored' after retiring to the Cotswolds
08/09/2025 … Ellen DeGeneres is to perform a series of ‘in conversation with’ events – all relatively close to her Cotswolds home.
Mon 08 September 2025
Phil Ellis' Taskmaster interview
Grilled by Alex Horne over the table-tennis table
08/09/2025 … It's Phil Ellis' turn to take on Little Alex Horne's interview for the 20th series of Taskmaster, Like Ania Magliano and Maise Adam before him, he…
© The Lowry/CC BY-SA 2.0 How Rula Lenska owns Peter Sellers' head
...and the new drama being made about it
08/09/2025 … A new audio drama about Peter Sellers has been announced on what would have been his 100th birthday today.
© Donald Cooper / Alamy Comedians, 50 years on
Gerard Clough compares Trevor Griffiths’ imagined evening class with today’s stand-up courses
08/09/2025 … I didn’t see the original 1975 production of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians at Nottingham Playhouse but did catch it on TV a little later in a Play For…
Filming starts on Graham Linehan's next show 'within weeks'
08/09/2025 … Work is set to start on Graham Linehan’s next comedy project within weeks, despite his legal woes.
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy More details emerge of James Corden and Ruth Jones's new project
Pair will play siblings in show called The Choir
08/09/2025 … James Corden and Ruth Jones’s new Apple TV show is to be called The Choir.
Maisie Adam's Taskmaster interview
...while trying to beat Alex Horne at table-tennis
08/09/2025 … Alex Horne interviews Maisie Adam ahead of the new series of Taskmaster this week.
© Lore Photography The Day I Accidentally Went To War
Review of comedian Bill Posley's account of serving in the US military
08/09/2025 … Bill Posley is not your stereotypical soldier: a gentle, easy-going, unathletic type who seems more likely to be battling gluten than Al Qaeda.