'I grew up in a time when you were made to feel ashamed of being foreign'
10/12/2021 … Shaparak Khorsandi unveils her new show, It Was The 1990s!, next week.
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Fri 10 December 2021
Tue 07 December 2021
What is Simon Pegg's real surname?
07/12/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© Matt Holyoak ‘It's easier to be politically correct when you're not trying to make 2,000 people laugh'
Jimmy Carr on offence in comedy
07/12/2021 … Jimmy Carr says it’s hard to be politically correct if you’re trying to entertain large audiences Defending his near-the-knuckle jokes, the comic…
© Liz West/CC BY-SA 2.0 Revealed: The top topical Christmas cracker jokes of 2021
Gold competition winners announced
07/12/2021 … A joke about the rising cost of fuel has won the annual competition for the best topical Christmas cracker gags…
Sat 04 December 2021
© BBC 'I'm going to do The Weakest Link my own way...'
Romesh Ranganathan on taking over the reins from Anne Robinson
04/12/2021 … The Weakest Link returns to TV this month after a nine-year absence, with Romesh Ranganathan taking over from Anne Robinson.
Tue 30 November 2021
© James Gilham What is the name of Katherine Ryan's daughter?
30/11/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 29 November 2021
© Drama Republic 'The first thing she did after the tumour diagnosis was put on an inflatable sumo suit...'
Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson on their new BBC comedy Britney
29/11/2021 … Britney, a one-off comedy pilot about a young friendship turned upside-down by a brain tumour comes to the BBC Three tomorrow.
Fri 26 November 2021
'He didn’t believe in being boring'
Cream of the comedy and theatre worlds bid a fond farewell to producer David Johnson
26/11/2021 … He was ‘recklessly generous’ and ‘generously reckless’ – a mischievous, maverick comedy and theatre impresario and tireless bon viveur…