The art of TV comedy is distilled into its purest essence in the format of a sketch show. Sketch comedies have been entertaining viewers at home since the 1940s, when variety shows like Texaco Star ...

Andrew Dawson is one third of comedy creators The Dawson Brothers. The trio have written iconic TV treats like Ronnie Corbett's The Blackberry Sketch together, and Brain Surgeon sketch on That ...

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is tapping into the “new wave” of British comedy, according to the network’s comedy boss Charlie Perkins. Delivering her first set piece interview nearly three years into her role ...

British comedy is built not simply on jokes, but on the sudden shift that makes an audience rethink what it expected. From Monty Python's flying absurdity - bureaucrats, dead parrots and sketches that ...

Britain has a storied history of sketch comedy, but its humor has a very different flavor than the American variety. By Jonathan Wolfe Reporting from London As a London-based version of “Saturday ...

After a year of development, the British version of Saturday Night Live has finally revealed its cast of U.K. comics—so let's check them out. Clockwise from top-left: George Fouracres, Al Nash, Hammed ...

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show is a British comedy sketch show, written and presented by Simon Brodkin, and produced by Avalon Television for BBC Three. It features Brodkin hosting a studio based show as ...

A British comedy sketch show from 1975 featuring winners of the ATV talent show New Faces; made by ATV for the ITV network Designed to emulate the fast moving style of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, it ...

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Smack the Pony, starring Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan, and Sally Phillips, is set to make a return to Channel 4 after 23 years.