Sorry seems to be the easiest word

Remember Just Not Sorry? Yeah, that add-on for Gmail that told you when you were typing like a weedy little weed. It flagged up every time you put ‘sorry’ in an email where it wasn’t totally necessary. Which is… when, exactly? YouGov has gone the extra mile for us, polling around 1,600 people to find […]
BBC 100 Women 2015

We are excited to see BBC 100 Women 2015 is well underway, particularly as we were involved in creating a sketch with them to help convey the inequalities experienced by women in the media. We had great fun filming this sketch – written by our editor Kate Stone and starring 2015 Funny Women semi-finalist Catherine […]
BBC budget cut to the funny bone

The BBC has announced that due to a a shortfall in funding entertainment, comedy and factual programming at the BBC will be hit by cuts of up to £12 million. However all is potentially not lost, depending on your penchant for ‘undiscovered’ music talent, as the corporation said it would use money saved from dropping […]
Women comedians rally round BBC Three

A list of comedians, actors and presenters have put their names to an open letter to Rona Fairhead and Tony Hall in a bid to save BBC Three. Currently the BBC plans to relegate the channel to online only, however the open letter states that the channel is vital for new talent to emerge: “Disastrously […]