British Comedy Guide

Beyond the class sketch - The Frost Report - British Comedy Guide We delve into the seminal satirical sketch show The Frost Report, yet to be issued on DVD, and look beyond the much-celebrated class sketch to discover more about this iconic 1960s comedy series.

Influential topical comedy show The Frost Report started on TV on this night 60 years ago.

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Robert Llewellyn - British Comedy Guide Robert Llewellyn is a 70-year-old English actor, known for Red Dwarf and Carpool.

Happy birthday to Robert Llewellyn... 70 today.

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Happy birthday to Ed Gamble... 40 today.

Smoggie Queens Series 2: First look - British Comedy Guide The BBC has revealed first look images from the second series of Smoggie Queens.

Smoggie Queens Series 2 is coming to TV this spring. Click through for some first look images...

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Royal Television Society Awards 2026 nominations - British Comedy Guide Here We Go, Alan Partridge, Such Brave Girls, Things You Should Have Done, Big Boys, Dreaming Whilst Black and Juice are amongst the nominees for the RTS Programme Awards 2026.

Here We Go, Alan Partridge, Such Brave Girls, Things You Should Have Done, Big Boys, Dreaming Whilst Black and Juice are amongst the nominees for the Royal Television Society's 2026 awards.

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JHD: One of comedy's MVPs - The exceptional career of John Howard Davies - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide Producers are often overlooked in television comedy, but are hugely influential, instrumental figures in orchestrating the brilliance we enjoy on screen; few with such success, impact or natural flair...

Producer and director John Howard Davies was born on this day in 1939. From Fawlty Towers to The Goodies, he was behind so many hits. This Comedy Chronicles article explains just how exceptional his career was:

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A marriage of inconvenience: The short-lived double act of Lennie & Jerry - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide An article looking at how the BBC made Lennie Bennett and Jerry Stevens a double act, and hyped them with an almost neurotic degree of energy, despite viewers able to see with their own eyes a partner...

[Recap:] Comedy Chronicles looks in-depth at the short-lived double act of Lennie & Jerry:

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Quiz 398 - British Comedy Quiz - British Comedy Guide Matthew Mclane has questions for us on Uncle Bryn, a podcast record, a supermarket bag and more.

[Recap:] The British Comedy Quiz. Who was the writer behind Duty Free, The Squirrels and Only When I Laugh?

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Ed Gamble and Romesh Ranganathan bring Unacceptable to TLC - British Comedy Guide Ed Gamble is to host a panel show in which comedians voice their most outrageous opinions, with Unacceptable, featuring two teams of comics, led by captains Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally, coming t...

[Recap:] TLC has ordered Unacceptable, in which comedians must convince a studio audience of their most daft, niche, unwise or unacceptable views. Ed Gamble hosts, with Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally as team captains.

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Jimmy Carr's Am I The A**hole? returns to Comedy Central - British Comedy Guide Jimmy Carr's Am I The A**hole? is returning for a second series on Comedy Central, with the host once again joined by Jamali Maddix and GK Barry to judge the public on their questionable behaviour and...

[Recap:] Jimmy Carr's Am I The A**hole? is returning to Comedy Central:

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Iain Stirling's Roast The Internet is back for a second series - British Comedy Guide Iain Stirling's Roast The Internet is returning for a second series, with Comedy Central ordering eight more episodes of the show that embraces online "hate-watching".

[Recap:] Iain Stirling's Roast The Internet is coming back for a second series on Comedy Central.

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Mock The Week lands second series and Christmas special on TLC - British Comedy Guide Mock The Week is returning for a second, expanded series on TLC in the autumn, with Dara Ó Briain and Rhys James confirmed as coming back and new faces joining established panellists.

[Recap:] Mock The Week is doing well on TLC. An extended-length series has been ordered for the autumn.

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Lucy Beaumont pilots travelogue with her mum, despite TV sexism - British Comedy Guide Lucy Beaumont is piloting a travel show with her mum, playwright Gill Adams, she has revealed, while reflecting upon the sexism in television commissioning.

[Recap:] Lucy Beaumont, and her mother, Gill Adams, are piloting a travel show together. The comic has disclosed few details of the project but speculated that if they had been men, "we would be in our second or third series".

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David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig star in James Pond audio series - British Comedy Guide David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig are staring in James Pond, a new four-part audio sitcom which has just launched online.

[Recap:] David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig are staring in James Pond, a new four-part audio sitcom which has just launched online.

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Looking After Henry - Comedy Rewind - British Comedy Guide For this week's column, we delve between the pages of Simon Brett's tri-generational female comedy, After Henry.

Attracting some 14 million viewers at its televisual peak, Comedy Rewind is today extolling the virtues of late-80s sitcom After Henry and its fabulous, sitcom-star cast.

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Lachlan Werner publishes Voices Of Evil special - British Comedy Guide Ventriloquist Lachlan Werner has put a recording of his hit Voices Of Evil show on YouTube.

Ventriloquist Lachlan Werner has put a recording of his hit show Voices Of Evil on YouTube.

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Memoirs, comic novels and biographies abound in our latest Shop Newsletter, with titles from a range of writers. Have a look and see what tickles your fancy: cdn.comedy.co.uk/newsletters/...

Alan Davies - British Comedy Guide Born in Essex, comedian and actor Alan Davies began performing stand-up in the late 1980s. Successful throughout the early 1990s when he won multiple awards, he is now best known for playing the titul...

Happy 60th birthday to Alan Davies!

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Frankie Howerd features - British Comedy Guide Features that British Comedy Guide has published about Frankie Howerd.

Frankie Howerd was born on this day in 1917. We've written lots of interesting articles about him over the years. You can read them here:

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Here's an online copy of our BCG Pro newsletter. There's some solid sitcom writing advice in this one.

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Sophie Garrad - First Gig, Worst Gig - British Comedy Guide Sophie Garrad is on tour and a hit online - so it's time for a slot we're calling First Sketch, Worst Sketch.

"Someone once said I look like I've started plastic surgery and given up half way through." Sophie Garrad takes on a First Sketch, Worst Sketch version of our weekly Q&A:

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Radio 4 to air Brian & Roger - British Comedy Guide Radio 4 will air new episodes of Brian & Roger, the podcast show created by and starring Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner.

Radio 4 will air new episodes of Brian & Roger, the podcast comedy created by and starring Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner.

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David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig star in James Pond audio series - British Comedy Guide David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig are staring in James Pond, a new four-part audio sitcom which has just launched online.

David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig are staring in James Pond, a new four-part audio sitcom about a man on the run from his girlfriend who has to battle his argumentative inner voice.

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Lucy Beaumont pilots travelogue with her mum, despite TV sexism - British Comedy Guide Lucy Beaumont is piloting a travel show with her mum, playwright Gill Adams she has revealed, while reflecting upon the sexism in television commissioning.

Lucy Beaumont is piloting a travel show with her mum, playwright Gill Adams, she has revealed, while reflecting upon the sexism in television commissioning.

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Rosie Jones stars in dark World War II comedy film Bad Major - British Comedy Guide Rosie Jones is to make her big screen acting debut in Bad Major, a dark World War II comedy written by her Pushers co-creator Peter Fellows.

Rosie Jones is to make her big screen acting debut in Bad Major, a World War II comedy written and directed by her Pushers co-creator Peter Fellows.

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Mock The Week lands second series and Christmas special on TLC - British Comedy Guide Mock The Week is returning for a second, expanded series on TLC in the autumn, with Dara Ó Briain and Rhys James confirmed as coming back and new faces joining established panellists.

With over a million people watching, Mock The Week is returning for a second, expanded series on TLC.

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Ed Gamble and Romesh Ranganathan bring Unacceptable to TLC - British Comedy Guide Ed Gamble is to host a panel show in which comedians voice their most outrageous opinions, with Unacceptable, featuring two teams of comics, led by captains Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally, coming t...

Ed Gamble is to host a panel show in which comedians voice their most outrageous opinions, with Unacceptable, featuring two teams of comics, led by captains Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally, coming to TLC this summer.

www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8663...

Junior Simpson retires due to ill-health, fundraiser set up for comic - British Comedy Guide Junior Simpson has retired from stand-up due to ill-health and a fundraiser has been set up for him.

Junior Simpson has retired from stand-up due to ill-health and a fundraiser has been set up for him.

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Quiz 398 - British Comedy Quiz - British Comedy Guide Matthew Mclane has questions for us on Uncle Bryn, a podcast record, a supermarket bag and more.

Angelos Epithemiou can often be found carrying a bag from which supermarket? That's one of the harder questions in this week's British Comedy Quiz.

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