CBC Radio’s “Irrelevant Show” is recorded live in front of a paying audience. Credit: Rob Swyrd/CBC OTTAWA — For many listeners, the Golden Age of radio was also the Golden Age of radio comedy. Before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Radio 4 Friday evening comedy has relied on hosts Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis to keep in touch with young stand ups and ferret out ...

Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First?” is four minutes and 46 seconds of a basic misunderstanding. It relies on the kind of grade-school wordplay — “No, the horse’s name was Friday” — that would ...

Benedict Cumberbatch has steadily risen up the entertainment ranks over the last few years. Since taking on the title role in Sherlock and subsequent starring parts in Star Trek Into Darkness and The ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Netflix is branching out beyond film and TV with its first audio-only broadcast ...

SiriusXM and Netflix announced the launch of Netflix Is a Joke Radio, a full-time comedy channel piggybacking on the streamer’s stand-up comedy lineup. The channel, debuting April 15, marks the first ...