Not the Nine O'Clock News

That peculiarly British phenomenon the comedy sketch show is alive and well and living mostly on the BBC.

Cambridge's Footlights has long been a fast track to comedy riches. But, asks David Stubbs, what of the alumni of Scumbag College? Peter Cook.

The South Bank Show returns for a new season with a film about the influence of the Cambridge Footlights on television and radio comedy up to modern day.

Comedy moment: Lloyd , who met Jones at Cambridge, says it was clear from the start that he was a star enlarge Griff Rhys Jones, 55, is a writer, comedian and television presenter, who came to prominence ...

Griff Rhys Jones explores the supermodels of the natural world in the finale of Mountain .

Not the Nine O'Clock News was a comedy sketch show that was broadcast on the BBC between 1979 and 1982.