We Yanks have no convenient piece of slang that approximates your lovely term "corpsing". But that doesn't mean our actors don't succumb. I saw the best – or perhaps the worst – example in recent ...

It must be hard to be a comedy actor. Not only is it arguably the most difficult art form to perform (especially in front of a live studio audience, where you find out fairly quickly if you've ...

Mrs Brown's Boys has become a firm fixture in the Christmas TV schedules, but even after years of practice the cast still can't keep a straight face. Whether it's Mammy causing chaos on set or one of ...

You don't hear much about it in little theatre, simply because it's more a pro-theatre thing. Corpsing is when an actor does something on stage designed to make another actor go into paroxysms of ...

In honour of former Radio 4 presenter Charlotte Green's "corpsing" live on air, here's a collection of some of the most memorable on-air mishaps of British TV Charlotte Green, the former Radio 4 ...

Sometimes, things are funny for absolutely no reason and you can’t explain why something has tickled you so much. And that’s exactly what happened to Bradley Walsh during the most recent episode of ...