Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about the year 1984.

There’s a specific kind of terror that only comedians who put on their own shows understand. Not dying on stage (that’s familiar). This is worse. This is The Fear Of Nobody Turning Up. An empty room.

Sir Keir posted the clip on his new TikTok channel, tagging President Macron and captioning it with a quote from Top Gun, the film that popularised aviator sunglasses: ‘Talk to me, Goose’.

Stars Tim Key and Tom Basden are up for best adapted screenplay for their script, where it is up against Hamnet, Begonia, Pillion and One Battle After Another, which leads the nominations with 14.

Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club – the comic’s stand-up series about modern masculinity – is returning to Radio 4 this spring/ Four new episodes of Geoff Norcott ’s Working Men’s Club will air in ...

James Acaster’s last tour is to be screened in more than 400 cinemas across the UK. Cinemagoers Welcome is a version of his Hecklers Welcome show, which was filmed during tour dates in Truro, Dublin ...

Kevin Fortune takes the role of head of wigs, hair and make-up. With more than 30 years' experience, he co-founded the Kevin Fortune Hairstyling Academy and has worked on Netflix's Master of None and ...

Mark Bonanno is your mother’s new boyfriend in this new Aunty Donna sketch. His colleagues in the Australian sketch troupe Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane and their co-writer Sam Lingham play the sons ...

The Also Festival has unveiled its comedy programme for 2026, with political stand-up Mark Thomas and French character comic Marcel Lucont among the headline acts. The three-day event, running from 10 ...

In these divided times, what this country desperately needs is Angry Humour From a Really Nice Guy (in many ways it's actually the last thing this country needs, but it's what it's getting so tough ...

Iain Stirling had told how he turned down being the voice of Love Island ‘loads of times’ – but was finally convinced to do it by his flatmate Phil Wang . And he’s revealed how it’s opened doors to ...

Five stand-up comedians have been nominated for the 2026 Next Big Thing award, which aims to spotlight acts deserving of wider public attention. The shortlist features Bella Hull, ...