“But I hadn’t cracked the code, as it were, for the big time.” Around the same period that Monty Python came to life, Jason was cast in the role of Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army, only to lose it ...

Motorists risk a pretty expensive fine for behaviour that's common on residential streets. Comprehensive Highway Code changes came into force back in January 2022 - and unless you keep up with the ...

Some movies have the unique ability to make you laugh while not taking themselves too seriously. They poke fun at popular titles, twist familiar plotlines, subvert genres, and insert silly jokes and ...

As a genre, romantic comedies have had pretty sharply defined highs (the 1940s and 1980s) and lows (1990s-2000s) based on viewer appetite and studio competence, but thanks to this thing we call “the ...

Much like its close genre cousin (nephew/niece?) the superhero film, the potential of sci-fi movies exploded in the latter part of the 20th century thanks to technological advances that transformed ...

While sketch comedy is almost always part of the cultural conversation thanks to the near-constant presence of Saturday Night Live, it’s been particularly relevant lately with the recent release of I ...

Almost every sketch here is a hit, from a opening routine about an idiotic poltergeist to a spot-on send-up of performance poetry. They’re not trying to reinvent sketch comedy, but smartly and wittily ...

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Last year, when we were putting together “The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy,” our goal was to present a list of jokes that captured the entirety of capital-C comedy. While we feel like we ...

Our countdown of Guardian TV’s favourite programmes of the year is completed by a wonder of nature, filled with drama and sumptuous beauty • More on the best culture of 2016 1 Planet Earth II is a ...

The oldest joke on record, a Sumerian proverb, was first told all the way back in 1900 B.C. Yes, it was a fart joke: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not ...