© BBC What was the last episode of Fawlty Towers?
06/06/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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Tue 06 June 2023
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© BBC/Lingo 'It must be awful to be constantly scrutinised'
Catherine Tate's sympathy for the Royals as she launches her new comedy Queen Of Oz
06/06/2023 … In her new sitcom, Queen Of Oz, Catherine Tate plays a member of the Royal Family who’s become such an embarrassment that she’s despatched to Australia,…
© UKTV / Matt Frost 'I was just a hired turn. There's so much I don't know about Blackadder'
Tony Robinson on revisiting the series for a 40th anniversary documentary
06/06/2023 … In Original Blackadder: The Lost Pilot Sir Tony Robinson discovers the truth behind the Blackadder origin story – and the test episode in which he did…
Wed 31 May 2023
© Quay Street Productions/ITVX 'Everybody loves a love story, but this feels like one that hasn't been told'
Youssef Kerkour and Katherine Parkinson on Significant Other
31/05/2023 … In the new ITVX comedy Significant Other, Youssef Kerkour plays Sam, who is waiting to die after swallowing a cabinet full of pills when he’s interrupted by…
Tue 30 May 2023
© Patrick Olner Man Like Mobeen pilot was 'the biggest piece of shit I ever made'
Guz Khan on why he went back to the drawing board... as comedy returns for series 4
30/05/2023 … Guz Khan says the next series of Man Like Mobeen was inspired by his cousin being sent to jail.
What was the name of the ship in Carry On Jack?
30/05/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Sat 27 May 2023
© Patrick Olner Peter Baynham: Comedy writers have to be weird, strange and sociopathic
Borat and Alan Partridge scribe at the BBC Comedy Festival
27/05/2023 … Acclaimed writer Peter Baynham lifted the lid on his illustrious career in a session at the BBC Comedy Festival in Cardiff yesterday.
Fri 26 May 2023
© Patrick Olner Succession's Jesse Armstrong: 'A writers' room is not for writing in'
Series creator interviewed at the BBC Comedy Festival
26/05/2023 … They are, by most measures, truly awful, immoral human beings.