Nish Kumar on polarised politics

The presenter of The Mash Report said he doesn't give Labour such a hard time because: "I'm not sure those people need to be further beat up".

As Barry Cryer turns 85, a birthday treat with parrots

Today, I had been planning to turn the tables on Barry Cryer. Every month, Barry presides over an Oldie magazine readers' lunch at Simpson's in the Strand, introducing each speaker with a limerick.

Review: Stay At Home Festival

When the coronavirus hit home last week there was a lot of talk about comedians setting up online gigs as their touring workload dropped off a cliff.

O-T Fagbenle on his gloriously daft new comedy

O-T Fagbenle is on his knees in a bloodied toga, singing a cappella and begging Jourdan Dunn for one more chance. The supermodel looks wholly nonplussed, so Fagbenle - playing the eponymous deluded narcissist in the new E4 comedy Maxxx - sweeps out imperiously, only to creep back to tug the trailing toga fabric free from the door.

TV review: My Left Nut, series 1 episodes 1 - 3

It's the kind of TV series where if it helps just one person come to terms with a similar condition then of course it has value, and there are a few other positive aspects to it as certainly the young cast are all superb and a few of the jokes land. But most of the time it's a bit on the nose, a bit by the numbers, offering very little insight in to how someone might react in such a situation (well, apart from "Reasonably badly") and the tackier sex related elements are painfully unoriginal.

Julie Felix obituary

Folk singer whose TV appearances on The Frost Report in the 1960s made her a household name.

New album from Ben Norris

He has done something more about scratching that musical itch, releasing the album Moral Vacuum, 12 songs which combine appealingly infectious melodies with wryly comic lyrics.

Uncle: subversive comedy makes life a little less bleak

It may seem like a regular odd-couple premise, but this undersung BBC series is fresh and inventive. And that's before you get to the musical numbers.

Comedy Against Living Miserably, Dave, review

A commendable initiative in which stand-ups discuss their mental health was unfortunately stilted and lacking in laughs.

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins: interview

'It's important women our age can be seen as active and in love'.

Martin Freeman goes where other parenting dramas don't

Breeders feels as much a confessional piece as it is a sublimely funny comedy.

An exceptionally important piece of Blackadder analysis

For a sitcom, Blackadder Goes Forth has inspired a great deal of scholarly debate over the years. In particular, the series' portrayal of Field Marshal Haig as a callous murderer has become massively controversial. Is this simply devastatingly effective and truthful satire, or a fundamental misrepresentation of history which everyone has taken as fact?

It's certainly an interesting question. So in true Dirty Feed spirit, let's ignore all of that and investigate the show's set design in painstaking and pointless detail instead.

This Country is one of the most radical TV shows ever

Their pitch-perfect mockumentary began, three series ago, by being hilariously funny. But by the time it ended, it had turned into something quite different.