Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz – and this is the 300th to be compiled by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker, so we've let him ask questions all ...

In the distinctive theme tune of the BBC hit, a man can be heard shouting ‘hey!’ every few minutes – and that voice is none other than Matt Berry’s. The star of Garth Merenghi, The IT Crowd and so ...

Comedy is both a rebellious act and a survival mechanism. I don't really see comedy and drama as separate—they naturally ...

The David Mitchell and Robert Webb sitcom Back could be heading for a US remake. Writer Simon Blackwell, whose credits also include Veep and Breeders, is working on an adaptation for the HBO.

Ghosts co-creators Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working on an animated series set in a hospital. In Case of Emergency is in development for Netflix and is said to take its inspiration from ...

It’s been more than 30 years since Sam Malone called time on Cheers. But now the bar-based sitcom could be set for a British remake, it has been revealed. Simon Nye, the writer known for Men Behaving ...

There is a part of East London that is forever Nottingham – well, for the foreseeable at least. Nottingham Trent University recently opened a creative arts campus called Confetti in Whitechapel, which ...

There have been countless times where I’ve lost the plot in this series, but that’s part of the joy of it. It’s not manufactured chaos. It is chaos. There’s a moment in the Christmas special that is ...

The comic admitted that on his last tour ‘I broke a few ribs falling off an ironing board’. Hill, who turns 60 tomorrow, has taken it a sign he may have to take things easier. ‘The live-show stunts ...

Josh Berry intends to provide some sort of answer to this question, through his many impressions and characters, as he tells the tale of being his best friend’s best man earlier this year. From ...