Which comic strip character did James Bolan bring to life?
09/10/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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Tue 09 October 2018
© Jon Anton Those were the Glaze!
Alan Stafford plays tribute to Crackerjack comedian Peter Glaze, who died 35 years ago
09/10/2018 … I’m no cartoonist but if I wanted to create a likeness of Peter Glaze I’d go straight to the kitchen Trace around a frying pan for the body, a…
Wed 03 October 2018
'Viewers like seeing people having difficulties on screen'
Sharon Horgan and Lorna Martin on W's new comedy Women On The Verge
03/10/2018 … A new comedy-drama based on Lorna Martin’s autobiographical 2008 book Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown launches on UKTV’s W channel next week,…
Tue 02 October 2018
© UKTV 'We're always trying to do Smack The Pony again, but nobody's interested'
Sally Phillips on sketch comedy, Veep, and working with sloths....
02/10/2018 … INTERVIEW BY JAY RICHARDSON Since her first screen roles, sporting a negligée and Mel Smith's vomit in a Smith & Jones sketch, then playing The…
Win Hang Ups on DVD
Stephen Mangan's Channel 4 comedy
02/10/2018 … Stephen Mangan’s Channel 4 comedy Hang Ups has just been released on DVD – and we have five copies to give away.
What British sitcom was remade in the US as Lotsa Luck?
02/10/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Fri 28 September 2018
A Good read...
Win one of five copies of new Richard Briers biography
28/09/2018 … A major biography of Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles star Richard Briers was published yesterday – and we have five copies to give away.
Tue 25 September 2018
What was the name of Frankie Howerd’s character in Up Pompeii?
25/09/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.