The Comic Strip Presents...

Imagine Rebekah Brooks roller-skating through The Sun

It's a glorious, irreverent post-hacking lampoon, a fantasy set in the 1970s with flairs, moustaches and disco music, that tells the story of Rebekah, an ingenue from the north of England who, having accidentally become chief executive of News International, gets embroiled (innocently of course) in a scandal.

The Comic Strip gives a satirical kicking to Brooks

With The Comic Strip's latest fantasy screening this month, its creators talk about their phone-hacking parody and why they set it in the Seventies.

"Did Iron Age woman have Playtex to guide her?" shouts a young Rik Mayall to a reluctantly undressing Jennifer Saunders. So begins Dawn French's superbly bizarre comedy set at a summer school offering a course in 'Iron Age Living', also starring Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson.

A welcome airing for one of the more worthwhile later-era Comic Strips, "Four Men In A Plane". First shown at the turn of the millennium, this follows a quartet of besuited bell-ends (played by premier Strippers Edmondson, Mayall, Planer and Richardson) who charter a plane to an African sales conference. Following unexpected interface with terra firma, the salesmen draw on their storied experience to survive. Basically, a remake of Alive populated entirely by George Osborne clones.

The best moments of The Comic Strip Presents...

As Gold gives a long-awaited reshowing of the 2011 Comic Strip gem The Hunt for Tony Blair on Saturday, we give our guide to the best the troupe has had to offer in its 32 year history.

Rik Mayall's death brings Comic Strip gang closer

Nigel Planner believes the death of his former co-star, Rik Mayall, in June, has brought their alternative comedy group, the Comic Strip gang, closer together again.

Peter Richardson interview

The mastermind behind The Comic Strip looks back at one of Britain's most influential alternative comedy movements and hints at more to come very soon...

Peter Richardson talks about new Comic Strip film

Peter Richardson has confirmed that Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan are to star in the upcoming Comic Strip film It Ends Badly.

Gigglebox weekly #63 - Five Go to Rehab

While there were some funny moments - the highlight being George's problems with her sat-nav - it was sadly rather dull.