In tribute to this year’s cancelled Eurovision Song Contest, Olivier Award-winning musical comedy improvisers The Showstoppers will deliver Europop’s favourite night of the year - direct to the world... more
Videos
Five decades on from the classic Monty Python parrot sketch, this ‘lost audio’ reel imagines what the world would have been like if gender bias was flipped, and the world’s greatest sketch show had... more
Following the death of Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider I was thinking about his band's overlap wth British comedy. In fact i was thinking about it before he died. Earlier this week Vic Reeves in... more
Watch the first trailer from The Big Flower Fight, the new Netflix series hosted by Vic Reeves and Natasia Demetriou. Reeves and Demetriou will bring a healthy dose of humour to the series... more
With comedy currently migrating online in an effort to earn a crust and keep the juices flowing one of the hardest hit genres is improvisation. It has been tried online and you can interact with your... more
"One word, three syllables - cleanliness". The Famalam crew offer some tips to get through Covid19. Let's make it go viral. The video I mean.[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmWlAv9SqzQ... more
This morning it was announced that the BBC is to re-make Alan Bennett's classic Talking Heads monologues with a new all-star cast. There was a bit of a Twitter fuss when I posted the news, with Jenny... more
Watch Spencer Jones, the star of BBC comedy Mister Winner, in this new video for a track by Alexander Wolfe. Jones also directed it observing social distancing guidelines. He tweeted: "Alexander... more
Having written my own review of The BBC's Big Night In, I've had a look at some of the things other critics have written. Writing in The Independent Alexandra Pollard liked most of the charity... more
In times like these what you need to get you through the crisis is a daily Jewish joke. And Sol Bernstein, who claims to be the oldest Jewish comedians currently working the circuit, is on hand to... more
