'Pure silliness is difficult to get right'
Stevie Martin picks her comedy favourites
30/07/2019 … Airplane The first proper grown-up comedy film I saw as a kid is still my favourite.
2019 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Tue 30 July 2019
© BBC/Tiger Aspect 'At 43, I’ve now realised I’m definitely really weird'
Spencer Jones on his return to the BBC as Herbert Clunkerdunk
30/07/2019 … Spencer Jones is soon to return to the BBC with four ten-minute episodes of The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk, featuring his silly alter-ego, Here he talks about his…
Mon 29 July 2019
What have you recently done for the first time?
29/07/2019 … Eaten an avocado.
'For the record, I am not Gazza'
The Mash Report's Steve N Allen recalls his most memorable gigs
29/07/2019 … Best gig It came about because I was doing some comedy work on a radio station in the South West.
'It was obscene and grotesque and made me scream laughing'
Flo & Joan – aka sisters Nicola and Rosie Dempsey. – pick their comedy favourites
29/07/2019 … Roald Dahl We were obsessed with Roald Dahl as kids and our favourite book was Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhyme’.
Sun 28 July 2019
Who was the first person you remember fancying?
Another from Richard Herring's stock of Emergency Questions
28/07/2019 … April O'Neill from the Ninja Turtles cartoon.
'Half the audience had either been punched in the face or opted to go home'
Visiting US comedian Langston Kerman recalls his most memorable gigs
28/07/2019 … I’ve had some pretty amazing opportunities as a stand-up comic.
Deeply insightful about the worst corners of humanity... while being extraordinarily clownish
Ben Van Der Velde picks his comedy favourites
28/07/2019 … Victor Borge I adore Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey and had my mind blown when my Dad introduced me to the lyrical and manual dexterity of Tom Lehrer,…