Entertainment p.5

The people behind this AI-generated McDonald’s ad complained about how hard they’d worked to make it, and got owned into next year

Miriam Margolyes asked Alexander Skarsgård how he prepared for his gay BDSM film Pillion and it’s the funniest Graham Norton exchange of the year

Garron Noone has been rating people’s Christmas trees, and it’s every bit as hilariously brutal as you’d expect (NSFW)

James Acaster having a jokey meltdown about tapas on ‘Saturday Kitchen’ is one of the polar bear-punching TV highlights of 2025

This Finnish Who Wants To Be A Millionaire question is still the funniest of all time – and slightly NSFW

This fabulous QI outtake with Bill Bailey is the best thing that’s never been on our favourite BBC2 panel show

The dictionary declared Die Hard to be a Christmas movie. Yippee ki-yay, Merriam-Webster

There’s been yet another crime against tea, and Garron Noone isn’t about to take it lying down (NSFW)

Paris got the Christmas season off to a flying start with this spectacular Carol of the Bells flash mob

Michael Gove tried to be clever correcting someone’s spelling – then Michael Rosen came for Gove’s grammar and it was just poetry

Benedict Cumberbatch’s name has a very funny effect on Patton Oswalt – and it’s contagious

There’s not enough facepalm in the world for this LBC caller who insisted that Brighton’s Muslim mayor had cancelled a Union Flag exhibition, even after learning that the mayor isn’t Muslim

These Look North legends had the viewers in stitches with this slightly spicy remark about Paul’s equipment

Probably the best off-schedule cheer display these American football supporters will ever see – and definitely the most surprising

Gillian Anderson’s mind-boggling self-restraint after being asked if she’d spoken to Margaret Thatcher before playing her deserves an award all its own