Wednesday 28th October 2026, 9:28am by Jay Richardson Frank Skinner loves Westerns, revering Roy Rogers and naming his short-lived sitcom Shane after the iconic Alan Ladd film. He once played country and western legend Johnny Cash, in 2018 comedy, Johnny Cash And The Ostrich.
Thursday 22nd October 2026, 4:08pm The finalists have been announced for the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year 2026 competition. Below is a list of the acts taking part, alongside a one-line description they have provided about themselves. A pretty, slow comic from Liverpool,…
Thursday 22nd October 2026, 10:44am The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2026 has been announced. The judges picking the list were Peter Florence (Director of The Conversation at St Martin in the Fields), Patrick Grant (TV and radio commentator),…
ExclusiveWednesday 21st October 2026, 9:23am by Jay Richardson The creators of Goodness Gracious Me received death threats, star Nina Wadia has revealed. The actor makes the disclosure in Gareth Gwynn Was Better On The Radio, an upcoming Radio 4 documentary in which comedy writer…
Monday 19th October 2026, 10:35am Filming has completed on the third series of Black Ops. The new six-part run sees Gbemisola Ikumelo and Hammed Animashaun returning as chaotic police community support officers turned-spies Dom and Kay. This time they find themselves embarking on…
Written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, who had previous successes with sitcoms including The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles, Brush Strokes ran for 40 episodes across 5 series from 1986 to 1991, becoming a huge hit with viewers across the country. The…
British Comedy Guide "If you look a certain way, talk a certain way, and joke about certain things, you get used to people saying what they think of you. Bring it on. But recently I was stunned when a man…
In August, the Edinburgh TV Festival ran a series of panel discussions under the title Funny Business. The sessions aimed to unpack what's working, what's changing and what comes next for TV comedy. Here are recordings of those four hours:…
It was the first of times, it was the worst of times. "It means a lot," says the comic. "It's an iconic venue with so much performance history, and it's the first big theatre I played on tour, so means…
British Comedy Guide Since coming to England from Iran in 1980, Patrick Monahan has been called a terrorist more times than he can count, enough, he jokes, that if he had a pound for every one, he'd have thefunding to start…
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