The Fawlty Towers remakes
A real-life farce in four flops...
08/02/2023 … Just five years ago, John Cleese told an interviewer: ‘If I ever tried to do a Fawlty Towers-type sitcom again, everyone would say, "It’s not as…
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Wed 08 February 2023
Tue 07 February 2023
Chortle Awards 2023 winners announced
Including Jazz Emu, Dara O Briain, Seann Walsh, Bob Mortimer, Joe Lycett
07/02/2023 … Musical comedian Jazz Emu was a double winner at the Chortle Awards in a ceremony that also honoured Dara O Briain, Seann Walsh, Bob Mortimer, Joe Lycett and more.
What was the name of the 'busy' milkman in Father Ted?
07/02/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 06 February 2023
Romesh: Work made me cry... but I almost gave up on my comedy dream
Comic shares some of the worst moments of his life in a new podcast interview
06/02/2023 … Romesh Ranganathan has recalled some of the worst moments of his life in a new podcast.
Tue 31 January 2023
Which David Bowie song did The Krankies once cover?
31/01/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© Avalon 'I thought was going to be the next Bill Hicks, but wound up dressed as Queen Victoria and talking to a puppet dog'
Iain Stirling interview as Buffering return s
31/01/2023 … Iain Stirling has returned for a second series of Buffering, his semi-autobiographical ITV2 comedy about a twentysomething kids’ TV presenter and his flatmates…
Mon 30 January 2023
© Channel X Win every episode of Detectorists on DVD
30/01/2023 … Mackenzie Crook’s charming comedy Detectorists made an acclaimed comeback at Christmas with hugely acclaimed movie-length special.
Wed 25 January 2023
Adam Hills: How my dad's cancer convinced me I had to be funny
'When the doctors could do nothing, I could still make him laugh'
25/01/2023 … Adam Hills has opened up about losing his father to leukaemia in 2013, just as he was starting out as host of The Last Leg.