Forgotten heroes of comedy

To mark 50 glorious years since the first of 12 pitch-perfect episodes of John Cleese and Connie Booth’s hilarious sitcom, Fawlty Towers , hit our TV screens, we pick out five favourite guest stars who checked in and made life miserable for the hotel’s hapless owner

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

At 1.30pm on Thursday 25 February 1971, the character of Mr Benn walked cheerfully into many children’s lives. The first episode of the animated series saw Benn, an ordinary resident of 52 Festive Roa

MY FIRST LONDON HOME

“I hope you don’t f***ing drop me. The way they’re carrying me, you’d think I’d died of f***ing lead poisoning.” Funerals are never an easy experience, and can be made considerably harder when the dec