Comedy

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.

When it comes to situation comedy, the comedies of Jimmy Perry and David Croft are a unique chronicle of Britain in the 20th century.

Dan Tessier looks back at three million years of comedy...and it's smegging fantastic!

A wry look at TV chefs, cookery shows and soggy omelettes.

Robert Ross explains how a single episode of 'Comedy Playhouse' changed the course of situation comedy forever.