An o-pun book
02/09/2014 … COMEDIAN Darren Walsh – who was named UK pun champion at the Leicester Comedy Festival last year – has landed a book deal.
2014 Archives
Tue 02 September 2014
Overcome by a heckler...
New body-swap comedy based around stand-up
02/09/2014 … A new body-switch comedy movie, in which a ruthlessly ambitious stand-up becomes inhabited with the spirit of a destructive heckler, is seeking a distribution deal.
Mon 01 September 2014
Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson
01/09/2014 … Mark Watson’s fifth novel is set in a majestic London hotel, the sort of elegant haunt favoured by celebrities, society and other players that is both fashionable…
© Channel 4 Richard Ayoade's reluctant travel show
01/09/2014 … RICHARD AYOADE is to front a new travel series for Channel 4.
Everyone likes seeing stars
...especially when there's only one of them, says Nigel Lovell
01/09/2014 … In a recent Correspondence piece, Isn't it time the stars went out?, Chortle editor Steve Bennett revealed he is considering ceasing to attach star ratings to reviews.
Sun 31 August 2014
Jim Jefferies – Bare
Review of his Netflix special by Steve Bennett
31/08/2014 … Jim Jefferies is the epitome of men’s locker-room comedy, with a crude repertoire of sex and porn and getting wasted – and then a bit more sex.