Comedy

Mad Men star Jon Hamm to play himself in Channel 4 comedy Toast of London

It's official: TV has fallen in love with the 70s

8 life lessons we've learned from Miranda

The Simpsons' Harry Shearer on why it would be a "thrill' to work in British comedy

Could you design the ultimate birthday cake for Mr Bean?

Shane Richie and Richard Dormer to star in new BBC2 comedy about the making of Dad’s Army

Bank holiday binge: the TV box sets you can start and finish this weekend

Martin Freeman: "Ricky Gervais made me laugh more than anyone else"

Former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross: "There are quite a lot of commercial operators who could do what BBC1 does"

Armando Iannucci: the BBC should stop seeing profit-making as “sordid”

Taylor Swift and Lisa Kudrow give Smelly Cat the stadium gig it always deserved

Henry Winkler on being a Peaky Blinders fanboy, starstruck by John Lennon and wanting to be a Strictly judge

Culture secretary John Whittingdale: I am not the BBC’s enemy

Big Bang Theory stars top list of world's highest paid TV actors

Olivia Colman to play wife of Mighty Boosh star Julian Barratt in Channel 4's dark relationship comedy Flowers

Goodness Gracious Me is still pushing the boundaries after nearly 20 years

How Twitter reacted to House of Fools being axed

The secret of The Simpsons' success is "ultimate creative freedom" says Harry Shearer

Hear the Friends cast sing the Friends theme tune... sort of

Danny Baker is already working on the second series of Cradle to Grave

The funniest (and unfunniest) jokes from Edinburgh Fringe 2015 revealed

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer comedy House of Fools axed by the BBC after two series

The BBC would never make Gimme Gimme Gimme today, says its writer Jonathan Harvey

A new series of Blackadder is “on the cards” says Tony Robinson

David Mitchell drags Radio Times into the fray in Would I Lie To You?

What should I watch? Veep

11 things in American high school movies that confused every British kid

Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank has finally happened. 2015 officially confirmed as the best time to be alive

Catherine Tate tries to save her marriage in new comedy with Miles Jupp

Could this BE any more distracting? Yeah baby, it's a deleted scene from Friends