British Comedy Guide

1 day ago | comedy.co.uk | Bobby Carroll

Love British Comedy Guide? Support our work by making a donation. Find out more "I'm Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you?" - Popular pre-meme comedy icon circa 1990Back in the day, years ago... fuck it, I wanna say 2010... ish, there was an in-vogue theory knocking around amongst the hustling comedians that if you could simplify your look down to a basic 2D line drawing of yourself you could become a massive name. Think Colonel Sanders. Or Captain Birdseye. Alan Carr's specs.

1 week ago | comedy.co.uk | Jake Godfrey

Love British Comedy Guide? Support our work by making a donation. Find out more Long before the birth of what became known as alternative comedy the same ethos was booming on the folk club circuit, with the likes of John Dowie, Victoria Wood and Billy Connolly fine purveyors of between-song-bonhomie.

3 weeks ago | comedy.co.uk | Si Hawkins

One random comedian, eight random questions; it's the ultimate test of funny person and fate. This week we look forward to A Lovely Weekend, which looks forward to the Edinburgh Fringe, but in Manchester in June. It's a festival of preview shows, featuring a fine bunch of comics, from John Kearns, Harriet Dyer, Jordan Brookes and Rachel Fairburn to Frankie Monroe, Mark Silcox, Sharon Wanjohi and - today's guest - Molly McGuinness. Her title certainly catches the eye.

3 weeks ago | comedy.co.uk | Chris Hallam

Have you ever wondered what happens to our favourite sitcom characters after the final curtain falls? Did Basil and Sybil survive the final climactic discovery of a live rat on the premises of Fawlty Towers? Did Tom and Barbara manage to keep on living the good life into the Eighties? In most cases, we never get to find out. Happily, in the case of Slade Prison's most famous inmate, Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker), we soon got a definite answer.

3 weeks ago | comedy.co.uk | Si Hawkins

Is stand-up a transferable skill? Apparently so for Lewis Costello, who recently announced his new tour at his other weekend workplace, the ground Alan Shearer and Kenny Dalglish once also graced: Ewood Park, home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club. On matchdays Costello is the club announcer, and he's now combining those careers with his new tour show Full Kit, a mirth-and-music peek behind the scenes of the beautiful game. But did Blackburn actually know he was announcing it there? We'll find out.