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.
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Tue 30 May 2023
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.
Thu 25 May 2023
© Patrick Olner Sharon Horgan: There's less bullshit making comedy in the UK than the US
Bad Sisters writer speaks at the BBC comedy festival
25/05/2023 … Sharon Horgan says there’s less ‘bullshit’ involved in making comedy in the UK compared to America.
Tue 23 May 2023
How much do you know about Mike Myers?
Trivia quiz to mark his 60th birthday
23/05/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Thu 18 May 2023
© Sarah Bennetto Which comedians are playing the 2023 music festivals?
Our guide to the big outdoor events
18/05/2023 … Stand-up has become a major part of the music festivals that have proliferated across the UK each summer.
Tue 16 May 2023
What was the name of the erotic novel in My Dad Wrote A Porno?
16/05/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Wed 10 May 2023
How the brain reacts when hearing - or telling - a joke
Exclusive book extract by Wulliam Hartston
10/05/2023 … Journalist and author William Hartston, the writer of the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express and a previous Gogglebox regular, has written 25 books.