One day in 1974, actress Prunella Scales travelled to Hyde Park Gardens to visit John Cleese in his flat to discuss a potential role in a new situation comedy called Fawlty Towers. As it happened, Cle

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

15 DECEMBER

It’s a retirement project like no other. Film editor Noel Cronin launched a nostalgia-themed TV channel from his home near Watford which now gets five million views

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It’s a joy watching our favourite singers or actors, but though we might admire them and enjoy the happiness they bring, do we ever give a thought as to how precarious the world of entertainment actua