Richard Osman's House of Games Champions Week, BBC Two

By Bruce Dessau on 23/3/2026
Richard Osman's House of Games Champions Week, BBC Two

Former winners Amy Gledhill, Jacqui Joseph, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Tim Vine test their general knowledge skills on this week's Richard Osman’s House of Games: Champions.

Amy Gledhill can also be currently seen on Last One Laughing UK on Prime Video. The rest of the line-up is David Mitchell, Diane Morgan, Romesh Ranganathan, Maisie Adam, Mel Giedroyc, Alan Carr, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sam Campbell and inaugural series one winner Bob Mortimer 

In fact 2026 is shaping up to be a big year for the Edinburgh Comedy Award winner.  She has already starred in Netflix's hit drama Runaway and is due to be a contestant on the next series of Taskmaster, which will also feature Joanna Page, Joel Dommett, Armando Iannucci and US actor Kumail Nanjiani. 

Tim Vine is a jester with a joke for every occasion. Following his show, Plastic Elvis, in which he paid tribute to the king of rock and roll, he has now made a movie version, Rocker ‘Brella Fella. which he says contains 26 original new songs and more fun than a funfair in Funville!  

Vine is the king of the one-liner, a veritable punmeister. He has won Dave's Joke of the Fringe twice. In 2010 with ‘I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.’ And in 2014 with ‘I’ve decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.’.
 
I once asked him if I could learn to write funny one-liners. He told me: "If I knew how to write a funny joke I'd only ever write funny jokes. Everything I wrote would go straight into the show. But part of the joy of the whole thing is that I know how to structure a joke. There are rules and things that will help it feel like a joke by the time you finish writing. So I know about that, but the whole thing about what makes it funny, you dig around and throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. That's the fun of it. It's always an audience that decides."
 
It is no surprise that The Times asked: 'Is there a more ludicrous comedian in Britain than Tim Vine?'

Richard Osman's House of Games, Monday, March 23 - Friday, March 27, 6pm, BBC Two. 

Picture Credit: BBC/Remarkable TV/Graeme Hunter

 

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