I don't care if they're the posh ones or the cheap ones, I don’t care if they’re the big ones or those tiny little dinky ones. Weather it’s got a solid top or a lattice crown.

Test your comedy knowledge with our Christmassy trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck... and happy Christmas!

In Bad Tidings, McCausland revives the relationship with Lee Mack that began with a guest appearance on Not Going Out – of ...

Wallace and Gromit isn’t the only stop-motion hit of the festive season. Animator @Shtencil has recreated the classic Aunty ...

Only Fools And Horses: The Musical, which stars Paul Whitehouse as granddad is in the midst of a three-week run in London, which ends on January 5, before continuing its UK tour. Vinnie Jones is ...

He’s no stranger to critical pile-ons himself, and now Ben Elton has leapt to the defence of probably the most-derided comedy ...

It deals directly and openly with Nicoresti coming out as trans, first to themself and then to the wider world, and wrestles explicitly with the attempts of the right to suppress trans rights and ...

The comedians taking part in the next series of Comedy Central Live have been named. It comprises 30 stand-up sets to be dropped weekly on the broadcaster’s digital channels, starting on Monday with ...

This is the double act you never knew wanted. But the partnership between Edinburgh Comedy Award winners John Kearns and Adam Riches makes so much sense, even before you see this formidable tribute – ...

Chris McCausland will deliver this year’s s alternative Christmas message on Channel 4. The comic landed the high-profile slot after becoming the first blind person to win Strictly Come Dancing, and ...

Mark Dolan has broken his silence about getting sacked from GB News. However apart from confirming the decision to leave the ...

Meanwhile, the satirical song Freezing This Christmas by Sir Starmer & Granny Harmers reached No 37. It had been the subject of outrage in the right-wing press as the BBC had not played the track on ...