Julian Barratt turns nasty
Boosh star directs in gruesome horror film
18/09/2014 … Julian Barratt has directed a section of a bloody horror anthology movie being launched tonight.
2014 Archives
Thu 18 September 2014
Stand-up archives go online
Just For Laughs to release three vintage clips a week
18/09/2014 … Rare early appearances from stand-up giants are to be released on YouTube, thanks to the Just For Laughs festival.
Patrick Kielty pens a sitcom
BBC to unveil Big Country next week
18/09/2014 … Patrick Kielty has written a new sitcom which will be previewed at the BBC next week.
Aziz Ansari returns to UK
18/09/2014 … US stand-up Aziz Ansari is to return to London in November.
Joan Rivers biography announced
18/09/2014 … A MAJOR biography of Joan Rivers has been commissioned in the wake of her death.
Alexander Armstrong IS Danger Mouse
And Kevin Eldon will play Penfold
18/09/2014 … Alexander Armstrong and Kevin Eldon are to voice Danger Mouse and Penfold when the children’s animation returns next year.
Jongleurs nearly ruined my honeymoon!
But comic gets paid after Chortle intervenes
18/09/2014 … Comedian John Scott has credited Chortle with helping save his honeymoon at the last minute – after we intervened in a dispute over unpaid fees from club chain…