How many Police Academy films were there?
19/09/2017 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2017 Archives
Tue 19 September 2017
© Netflix Jerry Before Seinfeld
Review of his new Netflix special by Steve Bennett
19/09/2017 … Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up has never been about baring his soul, but his new Netflix special offers at least a little insight into how he became the sort of…
Dave Allen's life to become BBC film
With Games of Thrones star Aidan Gillen
19/09/2017 … The BBC is shooting a Dave Allen biopic starring Game of Thrones actor Aidan Gillen, Chortle can reveal.
I'll be there for you
Friends fan pops the question on the sitcom's set
19/09/2017 … Where could be a more romantic place to get engaged than on a replica of the set from Friends? Certainly nowhere else for Adam Fishlock, who proposed…
French and Saunders plan a new TV special
First new sketches in a decade
19/09/2017 … French and Saunders are to record their first TV material as a double act in ten years.
© Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CC BY-SA 2.0 Emmys snub for Dick Gregory
Pioneer not honoured in 'in memoriam' section
19/09/2017 … He was a pioneering comedian and leading light of the civil rights movements.
Mon 18 September 2017
Harry & Chris tour song
Comedy duo sing their schedule
18/09/2017 … Rap-jazz-comedy duo Harry & Chris have released a song for their autumn tour, name-checking all the places they are playing.