Dark days under Donald Trump
Operation Mincemeat's Broadway transfer is hit by president's tarrifs
17/02/2025 … The Broadway transfer of Operation Mincemeat has been hit by Donald Trump’s trade war.
2025 Punching Up
Mon 17 February 2025
© Foto Ad Meskens / Creative Commons How Edinburgh's more expensive than the Cayman Islands at Fringe time
Shocking hotel prices revealed
17/02/2025 … It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s visited the Fringe – but Edinburgh has the highest hotel prices in the world in the summer.
© Bandicoot TV Joel Dommett: I want to host Family Fortunes!
Comic angling for Gino D’Acampo’s old job
17/02/2025 … It’s been less than two weeks since Gino D’Acampo’s career crashed down amid multiple claims of sexually inappropriate behaviour.
Look who Ben Elton's Morphed into
Comic immortalised in Plasticine as he's named Slapstick Festival legend
17/02/2025 … Here’s Ben Elton as you’ve not seen him before – reimagined as cartoon character Morph.
Fri 14 February 2025
© Channel 4 Look which comic's name got spelled out on Countdown!
...and he was a former contestant
14/02/2025 … In a remarkable coincidence, the letters pulled out for one game on Countdown today was an anagram of a certain comedian’s name… The letters…
© BBC Quite the spectacle!
Dame Edna's glasses fetch £37k at auciton
14/02/2025 … A pair of Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage glasses, with possums around the frames, have sold at auction for £37,800.
Thu 13 February 2025
Clown in a gown
The very fancy souvenir Chris McCausland took from Strictly
13/02/2025 … Chris McCausland has admitted he kept an embroidered dressing gown from Strictly Come Dancing – but is too embarrassed to wear it.
Do you share a birthday – and a birthplace – with Max Fosh?
Comedian is looking for a reunion... 30 years on
13/02/2025 … Max Fosh is searching to find babies born in the same hospital on the same day as him.