'Clever. Interesting. Silly.'
Sara Pascoe on her new series Comedians Giving Lectures
10/09/2019 … What interested you in Comedians Giving Lectures? I really wanted to be in charge.
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Tue 10 September 2019
Wed 04 September 2019
Ten comedians who died on stage
...as a new book chronicles performers who died with their boots on
04/09/2019 … From the most famous – Tommy Cooper – to the most recent – Ian Cognito – comedians who die on stage hold a special fascination.
Tue 03 September 2019
© UKTV How tall is little Alex Horne?
Try our Taskmaster-themed Tuesday Trivia Quiz
03/09/2019 … As Taskmaster returns to Dave for a ninth series tomorrow.
Mon 02 September 2019
© Fremantle Media/Talkback 'We explain quantum entanglement with a banana'
Sandi Toksvig on the Q series of QI
02/09/2019 … What can we expect from the new series of QI? Well, what’s fantastic about it is that it’s the letter Q so it’s the Q of QI, which is a marvellous…
Tue 27 August 2019
Sheila Steafel – a life on screen
Six clips of the comedy veteran, who has died at 84
27/08/2019 … The Frost Report, 1966 With Ronnie Barker The Tommy Cooper Hour, c1974 From her C4 show Sheila, 1982 Another sketch…
Which comedian narrates Peppa Pig?
27/08/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 26 August 2019
215 Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews
All we saw at this year's festival
26/08/2019 … Catherine Cohen: The Twist.
Ask a silly question....
All the Emergency Questions from the Edinburgh Fringe
26/08/2019 … For the Edinburgh Fringe we asked scores of comedians the most ridiculous things, thanks to Richard Herring's Emergency Questions – the conversational…