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TV tonight: our highlights for Friday, September 19, including Bake Off: An Extra Slice

Plus, Fawlty Towers The Play

WhatToWatch · Sep 18, 2025

TV tonight: our highlights for Friday, September 12, including a new episode of Bake Off: An Extra Slice

There's also a Downton Abbey documentary to enjoy.

WhatToWatch · Sep 11, 2025

The left must learn to take (and make) a joke

Letters: Readers respond to an article by George Monbiot on how rightwing people and parties use humour to promote toxic ideas

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025

Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2024

Scientists and comedians join forces to get climate crisis message across

Video series launched in which comics translate climate science into down-to-earth language

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2024

Climate scientist Mark Maslin: ‘We have all the technology we need to move to a cleaner, renewable world’

The professor of Earth system science on the hottest year on record, using humour – with a little help from Jo Brand – to get his message across, and why there are reasons to be positive

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

The Piano at Christmas review – so moving it’s spine-tingling

The talent show’s festive edition is a generous-spirited joy, which catches up with past contestants and introduces celebrity guests. It warms the cockles of your heart

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2023

TV tonight: all the crispiest Bake Off bits

A look back on the puddings, cakes and cackles that made this series a blast. Plus: the Drag Race finale. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023

Feargal Sharkey praised for ‘powerful’ Israel-Palestine speech on Have I Got News for You

Comments made by the musician and activist, who grew up during the Troubles, are being lauded by panel show’s viewer as ‘eloquent’, ‘informed’ and ‘worth listening to’

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2023

Have I Got News for You season 66: release date, guests, trailer and everything we know

Have I Got News for You season 66 sees Ian Hislop and Paul Merton return with their satirical comedy and an interesting array of presenters and guests.

WhatToWatch · Nov 3, 2023