comedy

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7698417.stm I'm not a fan of Brand, though I don't mind Ross, but hasn't this got a teensy bit out of proportion? How many of those complaining (and isn't complaining easy these days?) have actually heard the programme? I did hear it...

New show by the Horrible Histories guys on BBC 1 at 21.30. I read an interview with one of them plugging it, it's about a haunted house. He was asked it it's like Rentaghost, and he said not really - but it does sound like Rentaghost's main rival, The Ghosts of Motley Hall (he didn't mention...

I was wondering, does anyone have any idea where the phrase 'chinny reckon' comes from. I recall it being used in about 1983 and my friend John claimed to have invented it. I called Chinny Reckon on that straight away.

Remember Roy Jay? I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't, but he was a British comedian circa 1984 who dressed in a convict's outfit covered in arrows and told jokes in between saying, "Spook!" and "Slither!". It's just that since he disappeared from view in the mid-eighties, there have...

Anyone see this on Saturday? Not the most immediately obvious Fortean programme, but there was a hilarious spoof of Derek Acorah on it, complete with a fight between him and Scooby Doo.

If we haven't already a thread on The Best & Truest Film Ever, we have now... OK, two observations - Withnail & I has to be the best film about friendship going, and there are few films that remain funny and moving after several hundred viewings. Kudos to Bruce Robinson, then. Second...

SMEG ME! Red Dwarf Film ??? Anybody know the status of the Red Dwarf film? Earth needs more Dwarf, direly.

Anybody here a fan of the Carry On series? Are they considered fun and witty or just one step above Benny Hill or what? I've only seen two, Carry On Screaming and Carry On Up The Jungle, but I thought both were pretty fun. But I know some things that are funny are pretty universally liked...