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Will TikTok take Saltburn from bathtubs to Baftas?
Saltburn has been a slow-burn success story of awards season, having far more impact on streaming than it did in cinemas. Gross-out scenes involving bathtubs and graveyards helped it go viral, ultimately scoring it five nominations at this Sunday's Bafta Film Awards.
Alex Taylor, BBC, 16th February 2024
Steve Brown obituary
Comedy composer who collaborated with Harry Hill and Steve Coogan and wrote songs for hit shows such as Spitting Image.
The Times, 16th February 2024
David Tennant says 'it was quite fun' kissing Good Omens co-star Michael Sheen
"It was fine. He'd brushed his teeth," the Doctor Who actor said.
Maira Butt, The Independent, 16th February 2024
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Why our All Killa No Filla podcast has the best fans
For ten years now, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Rachel Fairburn have been dissecting notorious serial killer cases in their true crime comedy podcast, All Killa No Filla, always focusing on the lives of the victims, with plenty of tangents... To celebrate the milestone, they're off on tour. After a decade, the fans, a community of 'Legends', have grown to their thousands. Here, Kiri tells us why they're the best fans they could have hoped for.
LMAOnaise, 16th February 2024
Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening review
A modern revival of an award winning 90s sitcom is as fresh, hilarious and irreverent as ever.
Lucy C, A Young(ish) Perspective, 16th February 2024
The Gap: Matthew Kelly delivers big laughs, but the play is only skin-deep
Jim Cartwright's latest sees two old friends reminisce about their heady youth, but it tends merely to bump over the surface of their lives.
The Telegraph, 16th February 2024
Komedia New Comedy Award 2024 review
I'd wager the judges' scores must have been pretty tight at the final of Komedia's New Comedy Award. I know mine were, with little separating a talented bunch, none of whom crashed and burned under the pressure of the occasion.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th February 2024
Paul Foot review
The theme, hammers home Paul Foot - in a pounding prelude to Dissolve, in which he charges from table to table spouting some garbled metaphor that he himself hates about a berry-scoffing bird - is change.
Will Noble, Londonist, 16th February 2024
"It was just electric!": Rosie Jones, Katherine Ryan and Judi Love on revolutionising TV comedy
In new panel show Out Of Order, three of the UK's best female comedians are defying bigotry - with big-hearted, chaotic comedy. They talk about friendship, filth and twerking.
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 16th February 2024
More names join the 2024 Chortle Comedy Book Festival
...from Carry On films to tips on writing stand-up and more.
Chortle, 16th February 2024
Olga Koch review
The comedian's commanding stage persona never wanes as she muses on attraction, bisexuality and parasocial relationships.
Rachael Healy, i Newspaper, 16th February 2024
Komedia New Comedy Award 2024 review
Comedy competitions can often be long affairs with producers having big line-ups so that all the acts' mates buy tickets and fill the venue. No such problem at Komedia where nine acts, ably compered by Barry Ferns, played to a full room of what seemed like a non-partisan but very up-for-it crowd.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th February 2024
"We're going back to silly": what's the next turn for British comedy in era of nostalgia?
It's no joke for new shows as classic favourites live on while investment in sitcoms and sketches falters.
Alexandra Topping, The Guardian, 16th February 2024
Charlie Vero-Martin review
For unashamed ridiculousness, effortless hilarity, find Charlie Vero-Martin.
Dulcie Godfrey, A Young(ish) Perspective, 16th February 2024
Jon Courtenay interview
A comedian and former Britian's Got Talent champion is heading to Lancashire this spring with a comedy musical extravaganza which highlights why life is "about just grabbing each day by the whatsits"...
Aimee Seddon, Blackpool Gazette, 16th February 2024
Fans get chance to see Billy Connolly's Big Banana Feet
Billy Connolly has appeared in hundreds of films, documentaries and shows over the years. But Big Banana Feet is a rarity. It's a raw, edgy fly-on-the-wall documentary that follows the comedian, on the cusp of fame, around a volatile landscape.
Pauline McLean, BBC, 16th February 2024
Paul Currie: Inside the London 'comedy' show that became an 'antisemitic rally'
Israeli theatregoer Liahav Eitan reveals further details about shocking night.
Jane Prinsley, The Jewish Chronicle, 16th February 2024
Arthur Askey was on top of the pips in the wartime film Back-Room Boy
Nic Garner sheds more light on a film starring the comedian and actor.
Nic Garner, The Guardian, 16th February 2024The Gap review
The actors are lumbered with an unnecessary welter of tertiary characters who they simply send up with ridiculous costumes. After treating the central pair so fatuously, the play reaches at the end for unearned pathos where it expects us to suddenly care. The distance between this and a rich, layered, rounded play isn't a gap, but a gulf.
Matt Barton, What's On Stage, 16th February 2024Videos
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9am24 min
No More Jockeys
Special - Training Game 2A recording of a practice match between Tim Key and Mark Watson from March 2021 of the name-based memory game.
11:30am30 min
Noising Up
Series 3, Episode 6Topical comedy sketch show noising up the past week in Scotland and beyond.
1:30pm30 min
Breaking The News
Series 27, Episode 1Des Clarke returns with the panel show, with guests Jay Lafferty, Ray Bradshaw, Ria Lina and Chris Forbes.
5:30pm30 min
Horrible Histories
Series 10, Episode 7 - Radical RenaissanceLegendary artists Da Vinci and Michelangelo are the guides for a journey through one of history's most creative, and sometimes weirdest, periods.
6:30pm30 min
The News Quiz
Series 113, Episode 7Andy Zaltzman quizzes the news. Providing all the answers are Zoe Lyons, Andrew Maxwell, Rachel Parris and Danny Finkelstein. In this week of Lent and Love, Andy and the panel address Labour's difficult relationship with itself, Trump's flirtations with Putin, and giving up on the idea of home ownership.
8pm30 min
Here We Go
Series 2, Episode 3 - Amy's Valentine's FlowersIt's Valentine's Day, and the Jessops attempt to expose Paul's secret admirer.
9pm30 min
Would I Lie To You?
Series 17, Episode 8Babatunde Aléshé, Mike Bubbins, Jessica Knappett and Claudia Winkleman join host Rob Brydon and team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell to sort out the fact from the fiction.
9:45pm30 min
Fantasy Football League
Series 2, Episode 3Tony Adams and Alex Brooker join hosts Elis James and Matt Lucas to talk about the week in football and share their fantasy teams.
10pm65 min
The Last Leg
Series 30, Episode 1Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker return for their 30th series, with guests Rosie Jones and Richard Ayoade.
10:40pm50 min
The Graham Norton Show
Series 31, Episode 18 - Jodie Foster, Olivia Colman, Wanda Sykes, Lorraine Kelly, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone ManJodie Foster jokes about being Princess Leia, Olivia Colman compares her new film to Wagatha Christie, Lorraine Kelly says her book is here because of David Attenborough, Wanda Sykes talks about that infamous Oscars night, Austin Butler and Josh Brolin chat about Dune, and Calvin Harris & Rag 'n' Bone Man perform live in the studio.
5:30am30 min
My Mate's A Footballer
Series 1, Episode 13 - The First England Call-upAfter being distracted in the original episode about landmark moments, Joe and Pat reconvene to discuss more important moments from his career.