How the Comic Strip changed Nicholas Parsons
'He was funnier after Mr Jolly'
09/10/2020 … Nicholas Parsons became a changed man after he took part in the anarchic Comic Strip film Mr Jolly Lives Next Door his co-star Adrian Edmondson said.
Fri 09 October 2020
Fri 02 October 2020
So Trump got Covid...
02/10/2020 … Tweets of the week Breaking: Trump says he cannot release the results of his Covid test because they are under audit — Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) October…
'You look just like Sara Pascoe'
The comic on getting recognised... sort of
02/10/2020 … Sara Pascoe says someone once approached her on the London Tube to say: ‘I am so sorry, this is going to sound ever so strange, but you look just like…
Wed 30 September 2020
© Steve Ullathorne 'Harold Wilson gave me a DIY book
Hugh Dennis's odd childhood prize...
30/09/2020 … Harold Wilson once gave a teenage Hugh Dennis a copy of the Readers’ Digest Book Of Home Improvement.
Lenny Henry honoured - on a Belfast letterbox
Royal Mail gesture for Black History Month
30/09/2020 … The Royal Mail is celebrating centuries of black history - by painting a postbox black in honour of Lenny Henry.
Why Akmal Saleh keeps losing his wedding rings
Australian comic's compulsive pre-show ritual
30/09/2020 … Australian comedian Akmal Saleh has lost four wedding rings thanks to a compulsive performance ritual.
© Avalon/BritBox Spitting Image unveils some new caricatures
Including James Corden and Piers Morgan
30/09/2020 … Spitting Image has unveiled some new puppets before the series launches on BritBox on Saturday.
Mon 28 September 2020
Al Murray renews his appeal for blood cell donors
As he reveals his nephew is 'very ill but hanging in there''
28/09/2020 … Al Murray has made a TV appeal for people to joint he blood stem cell donor register, inspired by his seven-year-old nephew's diagnosis with a rare form…