What character did Daniel Kitson play in Phoenix Nights?
06/02/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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Wed 31 January 2018
You need sympathy for him, even though he's an asshole
David Cross on his new Sky comedy Bliss
31/01/2018 … Comic David Cross has created a new show for Sky One, Bliss, about the complicated double life of successful travel writer Andrew – played by Stephen…
Tue 30 January 2018
© BBC Bud Flanagan sang the theme tune to which BBC comedy?
30/01/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© BBC Whatever happened to the Hi-de-Hi! cast?
We look back, 30 years after the sitcom ended
30/01/2018 … Exactly 30 years ago today the last episode of Hi-de-Hi! aired.
'It's two sides of the same coin, whether something’s funny or sad.'
Alan Davies on the return of Damned
30/01/2018 … Jo Brand’s social worker comedy Damned is set to return to Channel 4 soon, with Alan Davies’s character Al becoming especially jaded about his job.
© C4 'Social workers are not these weird, useless, out-of-touch characters...'
Jo Brand on the return of Damned
30/01/2018 … Jo Brand’s social worker comedy Damned is set to return to Channel 4 soon.
Thu 25 January 2018
Bringing a Morecambe and Wise film back to life
The painstaking way a lost episode is being recovered
25/01/2018 … BBC archivists have described the painstaking process of restoring a previously lost 50-year-old episode of Morecambe and Wise.
Tue 23 January 2018
Unusual pun-ishment
Meet the UK Pun Championship finalists
23/01/2018 … Next month, eight comedians are to compete in the fifth annual UK Pun Championships at the Leicester Comedy Festival.