Jim White

Craig Cash remembers Caroline Aherne

'I hope Caroline Aherne's heckling me from heaven!'

Who will replace Freud on Just a Minute?

In homage to Sir Clement Freud, The Telegraph imagines a few new contestants being recruited to replace him.

Sneer at trivia, and you sneer at my soul

Flick through most of the 500 channels available on television today and you will see that rule writ large. A huge majority of the programmes available are dreary, talent-free and insulting. But alight on something that treats trivia as it should be treated, with care and respect, and it becomes a real joy.

Take the recent series QI, utterly pointless and utterly irresistible. As might be expected, since it was presented by Stephen Fry, a man whose learning cannot be gainsaid, but who has the intelligence and range to observe popular culture with the critical eye it deserves. As he proves, it is possible to be a trivia elitist.

Absolutely fabulous. Not.

Baikie, Banks, Docherty, Hunter, Kennedy & Sparkes. Who? The comics from Absolutely tell Jim White why they're basking in obscurity.