James Bugg is a comedy writer and former recipient of the BBC Radio Comedy Writer's Bursary where he was a staff writer between 2013 and 2014. As part of Mental Health Awareness Week he explains how ...

Right now at Arnold, I’m doing something not many creative directors get to do anymore: I’m running a group that turns out a whole lot of funny (and the occasional “funny”) content. We are in a near ...

We assume, because you are reading this, you write, or want to write, comedy. Many of you will want to write a sitcom. Some of you will write with the most perfect spelling and grammar, producing ...

Children’s author Guy Bass is launching a funny writing competition for children with his publisher Little Tiger called A Write Laugh. Meanwhile, a second comedy writing and performing arts ...

People often search for phrases such as 'how to write a sketch', 'writing funny sketches', 'scripting a comedic short', 'sketch comedy writing techniques' and 'sketch comedy for beginners'. So, with ...

The Funny Women Awards 2013 are now open. And as well as looking for the funniest female stand-ups in the UK, the awards are also on the hunt for comedy writing talent. Now in its third year, the ...

On a special episode (first released on May 25, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Nationally-syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry's memoir chronicles his life mostly spent joking around. Hit play on the ...

There are 10,390,411 goats in Niger. Go on, count them. Make my day. It’s not quite as many as Kenya, but it’s more than Brazil. I know this because the quiz website Sporcle tells me. It also tells me ...