Cally Beaton has shared CCTV footage of thieves stealing her bag from beneath her table as she caught up with a friend in a London restaurant yesterday. One crook kicked the bag away without her ...

We always made those sketches with real respect and affection for the show and its cast, so stepping onto the actual set for the first time was an especially strange experience. Although thinking ...

Dawn French plays Debbie Fendon a ‘tinpot dictator’ who maintains the illusion that her husband William (Mark Heap) is dead, hiding him away in the loft for a few months until the life insurance pays ...

Dom Joly says he has been denied entry to the US because of his social media posts. The Trigger Happy TV creator revealed that he was denied his Esta – which allows entry into the country without a ...

Test your knowledge of comedy in 2025 with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Clarke, 95, was the sole writer of all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine, which at its peak had an audience of over 18 million viewers. Meanwhile Keeping Up Appearances has been the BBC's most ...

BEING Stanley Baxter: This hour-long tribute was scheduled to air today anyway, but is given added poignancy after the comedian died on December 11, at the age of 99. The film draws on rare archive ...

Taking part in series two are: Joe Thomas , Harriet Kemsley, Asim Chaudhry, Lou Sanders , Josh Pugh, Layton Williams, Nish Kumar , Kiell Smith-Bynoe , Suzi Ruffell and Fern Brady.

I am an Apprentice fan. I know Tim [Campbell, Lord Sugar's aide] quite well. It's funny to think he was in the first episode because it's been so long, like 20 years. But he really became an instant ...

Whenever he faces a backlash for his jokes against the likes of trans people, Ricky Gervais has always been very insistent that no topic is off-bounds for comedy. And while he has weathered criticism, ...

Built in 1929 for spectacle – for musicals, cinema, and the sort of velvet-heavy grandeur that assumes applause will arrive on cue – it is not a venue that naturally invites hecklers or awkward ...

The script for an unmade Steptoe and Son Christmas sketch has been unearthed in the archives. It was written by the sitcom’s creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and was probably intended for the BBC ...