© Netflix / Matt Crockett Ricky Gervais’s coffers swell by £1.5million
According to the latest accounts for one of his companies
23/12/2025 … Ricky Gervais’s main company saw its value grow by £1.
Tue 23 December 2025
© Netflix / Matt Crockett 
© BBC Who played Prince Charming in Not Going Out?
Try our weekly trivia quiz... all about pantomimes
23/12/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© BBC/Merman/Natalie Seery 'It’s really good fun just hanging out. We did crosswords all the time’
Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders on the Amandaland Christmas special
23/12/2025 … Joanna Lumley joked that she would ‘murder’ her Absolutely Fabulous co-star Jennifer Saunders if she didn’t sign up for the Christmas…
© BBC Iain Stirling scoops Celebrity MasterChef’
'He’s cooking food of the people'
23/12/2025 … Iain Stirling was named Celebrity MasterChef’s Christmas champion last night by judges Grace Dent and John Torode.
Mon 22 December 2025
© BBC Mammoth Christmas special
Review of Mike Bubbins’ festive sitcom episode
22/12/2025 … Maybe Tony Mammoth has a point, Christmas TV *was* better back in his day, mainly thanks to Morecambe and Wise.
'This just feels worked on. feels worked on, more than 99.999 per cent of other shows'
Tim Harding on oseph Morpurgo's revived Soothing Sounds For Baby
22/12/2025 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London in the last two weeks.
Scottish Christmas movie accents
22/12/2025 … It’s not a Christmas movie in Scotland without a handsome prince in a castle - and some top class accents.
Tony Slattery's final acting job to be released
His reading of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
22/12/2025 … The last acting job Tony Slattery ever had is to be released this week.