Leonard Rossiter

Comedy Rewind: Rising Damp is going to get us all!

Sunday 1st September 2024

Perhaps the single most celebrated comedy in ITV's near 70-year history, Rising Damp marks its own 50th anniversary this month. A perfect time to see just what all that popularity is about.

Comedy Rewind: The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin

Sunday 3rd September 2023

Did you get where you are today without knowing The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin? If so, now's the time to jump into David Nobbs' wonderful world of mid-life insanity.

Comedy Rewind: Check It Out - Tripper's Day and Slinger's Day

Sunday 26th September 2021

Check in to Comedy Rewind and check out two often overlooked 1980s sitcoms starring comedy icons: Leonard Rossiter in Tripper's Day and Bruce Forsyth in its successor, Slinger's Day.

Comedy Chronicles: Classical gas - Galton & Simpson's Le Pétomane

Sunday 7th February 2021

This edition of Comedy Chronicles turns to one of Galton & Simpson's least-well-known works: a short comic film biopic of a famed French farter.

Comedy Chronicles: Leonard Rossiter - A difficult man

Sunday 12th January 2020

In this edition of Comedy Chronicles, Graham McCann looks at the remarkable career of actor Leonard Rossiter, and one fateful meeting that lost him a part in an iconic BBC sitcom.