What was the name of the sauce in Stepbrothers?
24/05/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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Tue 24 May 2022
Tue 17 May 2022
Who voiced the Peperami animal character?
17/05/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 16 May 2022
© BBC How Ghosts could have been a very different show
Co-creators speak at the BBC Comedy Festival
16/05/2022 … It’s one of the BBC’s biggest comedy hits – but Ghosts could have been a very different show, two of its creators have revealed.
© BBC/Stephen Perry/Wall to Wall Writing comedy made me so angry I smashed up my flat
Greg Davies on his career, wasting 13 years of his life and working with Rik Mayall
16/05/2022 … Greg Davies has admitted to trashing his home out of the sheer frustration at trying to write comedy.
Sun 15 May 2022
© Netflix/Matt Holyoak Charlie Brooker shares advice to new writers
As well as some eye-opening revelations from his own career...
15/05/2022 … Charlie Brooker has revealed how he designed the logo for a high street store, pissed himself on live TV, and is ‘too chicken shit’ to try stand-up.
Fri 13 May 2022
Want to write a sitcom? Forget about the jokes
Megan Ganz share some tips... and recalls the gag that cost £20,000
13/05/2022 … What’s the best way to start writing a sitcom? Forget about the jokes… That was the perhaps unexpected advice that Hollywood writer Megan Ganz…
Wed 11 May 2022
© BBC 'The BBC is by far the biggest fish in the pond when it comes to comedy...
Corporation comedy chief Jon Petrie's full speech to the BBC Comedy Festival
11/05/2022 … Here is the text of the ‘full telly wanker speech’ that BBC director of comedy Jon Petrie gave at the BBC’s new Comedy Festival in Newcastle this…
Tue 10 May 2022
What star sign was Brian in Life Of Brian?
10/05/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.