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QI’s John Lloyd: ‘I lost £10k when Rowan Atkinson’s stage show flopped’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJohn Lloyd’s TV work includes the satirical puppet show Spitting Image - David Rose John Lloyd CBE,...
With the death of the BBC’s The Now Show, we are in danger of losing the art of radio comedy
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSoon The Now Show will be no more. There will be an enormous online archive on BBC Sounds, of...
Huw Merriman: BBC hits back as minister mocked for claiming Radio 4 comedy show is proof of 'bias'
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe BBC hit back on Tuesday after Government minister Huw Merriman attacked an award-winning...
The BBC’s future can no longer be ducked
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoNext week, the BBC licence fee will rise by more than £10 to £169.50. The Corporation will argue that this is great value for money, less than £4 a week...
Jim Backus: Remembering the Man Who Gave Us Mr. Magoo and Mr. Howell | First For Women
First for Women via Yahoo News· 3 months agoYou'd think that late actor Jim Backus would have felt a bit elevated from ordinary folks when you...
Why Cabin Pressure’s John Finnemore is the funniest man on the radio
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 weeks ago“Tolstoy was wrong,” says John Finnemore. “That thing about unhappy families all being different and...
David Stafford, comedy writer and broadcaster who worked with Alexei Sayle and Benjamin Zephaniah –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDavid Stafford, who has died from lung cancer aged 74, was a comedy polymath across television and...
The Crown’s Claudia Harrison says the British public will be ‘surprised by’ the ‘truth’ of...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Crown star Claudia Harrison, who plays Princess Anne in the forthcoming fifth season of the...
Emily Atack pays tribute to ‘sweetest, most hard-working’ co-star Maddy Anholt following death aged...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 9 months agoInbetweeners star Emily Atack has paid tribute to her former acting co-star, Radio 4 comedian Maddy...
Gyles Brandreth: my role in the deaths of Rod Hull and other comedy legends
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoRod Hull, the entertainer best known for his partnership with the puppet Emu, fell to his death in...