Caroline Mabey – Original Review
13/05/2008 … A couple of years into her stand-up career, and Caroline Mabey hasn’t yet nailed her persona or delivery enough to take her out of the amateur leagues.
2008 Archives
Tue 13 May 2008
Arnab Chanda – Original Review
13/05/2008 … One of the most hotly-tipped of up-and-coming acts, Arnab Chanda has a clinical style, with meticulously crafted jokes slickly told with an assured but underplayed…
Mon 12 May 2008
Movie madness
Michael Monkhouse on why films are bad for comedy
12/05/2008 … I was chuffed to read Armando Iannucci's back with Steve Coogan.
Catch the coach
Win tickets to see Phill Jupitus in Lifecoach
12/05/2008 … Phill Jupitus will make his West End acting debut next week in the new comedy Lifecoach – and Chortle has five pairs of tickets to be won.
Fat chances...
12/05/2008 … Fat Pig, a new West End comedy starring Kris Marshall, Joanna Page, Ella Smith and Robert Webb, starts on Friday – and we have five pairs of tickets to be won.
Radio 4 comedy programming attacked
12/05/2008 … Radio 4’s comedy commissioning has been branded a creative ‘cul-de-sac’ – by the former head of BBC’s own radio entertainment department.
Mirza, she wrote...
Shazia named columnist of the year
12/05/2008 … Shazia Mirza has been named magazine columnist of the year for her fortnightly articles in New Statesman magazine.
© Ellis O'Brien An unsound performance
12/05/2008 … More than 100 people walked out of a Jimmy Carr gig over the weekend because they couldn’t hear the gags.