It is hard to officially declare anything as a first, especially in the arts and particularly in the field of British comedy, a place where naturally every great comic is heavily influenced by their ...

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply ...

From the award-winning theatre company Hambledon Productions comes the Godfather of all sitcoms, live on stage! Missing from the BBC archives, this UK Tour will mark the very first time these three ...

Sid hires the Lad to run his new venture, but there's a ...

In 1954, Tony Hancock burst onto the airwaves of the BBC Light Programme with a comedy show unlike anything the British public had heard before. Playing a less successful version of himself and ...