Nish Kumar fights deportation
...in a new film with Tez Ilyas
20/07/2016 … Tez Ilyas and Nish Kumar have made a short film about deporting immigrants for the BBC.
2016 Archives
Wed 20 July 2016
Now it's Dr Peter Kay
Honorary degree from his old uni
20/07/2016 … Peter Kay has received an honorary doctorate from his old university.
Rare Kenny Everett footage uncovered
Local radio shows lost for four decades
20/07/2016 … Recordings of comedian Kenny Everett working on local radio stations have been unearthed after more than 40 years.
Justin Moorhouse goes to the Olympics
Comic cuts Fringe run to cover Games
20/07/2016 … Justin Moorhouse has cancelled the first two weeks of his Edinburgh run to cover the Olympics for the major broadcaster that is… furniture store DFS.
America's Got Talent sticks with TapeFace
Act makes it to the live quarter-final
20/07/2016 … TapeFace has made it through to the live rounds of America’s Got Talent after using judge Howie Mandel as a stooge in his act.
Garry Marshall, giant of US comedy, dies
Legacy spans Happy Days to The Princess Princess Diaries
20/07/2016 … Garry Marshall, who created the sitcom Happy Days, has died at the age of 81.
Happy Days, Louis CK and jumping the shark
Comedy mastermind Garry Marshall talks to Jay Richardson
20/07/2016 … With the sad news of the death of Garry Marshall yesterday, at the age of 81, we reprint this interview that Chortle conducted with him in 2014 to coincide with…