Comedy

Morecambe and Wise treated us to some of the most memorable television song and dance routines ever. But with so many to choose from, just which one will come out the best?

In the golden age of British comedy, when radio waves crackled with wit and television screens flickered with laughter, there existed a cadre of unsung heroes. These were the wordsmiths, the invisible architects behind the guffaws and punchlines that echoed across living rooms and theatres

Brian Slade recalls the ever-reliable regulars that supported Morecambe and Wise and thanks you for watching their little show. If you've enjoyed it, it's all be worthwhile!

The incomparable Messrs Corbett and Barker in two all-but-forgotten silent slapstick movies from the seventies and eighties - The Picnic and By the Sea

Remembering some of Britain's favourite sitcoms over the last 70 years

A tribute to the unseen comedy characters who were an essential part of some of America's greatest sitcoms. You may have heard them, you certainly didn't see them, but you will always remember them...

You'll be shocked and amazed by what happened to the cast of Happy Days after they left our favourite Wisconsin city...

Over the years, Morecambe and Wise entertained some of the most famous top-name celebrity guests performing sketches and comedy dance routines. Here are ten - they’re all the right guests, just not necessarily in the right order

A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.

In the history of comic strips, 'Peanuts' is among the most popular and influential. Running in newspapers in 75 countries and with a readership of over 300 million, it is arguably America's biggest export. But when it was animated for TV in 1965, CBS were reluctant to bring it to our screens.

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.

After the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, a brave and kindly King Richard III returns victorious, only to be accidentally killed by Edmund Plantagenet. The first series of the classic historical comedy about the venomous but luckless Blackadder was almost its last.

Andrew Cobby reflects on the ups and downs and the coming of goings at a run-down boarding house, somewhere in England in the 1970s.

Festive laughter inside the walls of Slade Prison, in the company of Norman Stanley Fletcher and Lenny Godber.

Andrew Cobby remembers an all-time classic music-hall sketch that shows no sign of dating.

Dick Emery's characters were some of the best remembered on British television for a number of years. This article looks at how he created these characters utilising his natural flair for mimicry.