Mel and Sue to star in their first sitcom together
24/09/2018 … Mel and Sue are to star in their first sitcom together – playing a pair of hapless killers.
2018 Archives
Mon 24 September 2018
© BBC David Walliams is the Prime Minister
...in an adaptation of Sue Townsend’s The Queen And I
24/09/2018 … Samantha Bond is to play the Queen and David Walliams the Prime Minister in a new Sky One comedy described as an 'interesting alternative' to Netflix blockbuster…
Revealed: The next batch of Sky comedy shorts
Full plot and cast details of the new run
24/09/2018 … Chortle can today reveal the full details of the next batch of Sky’s comedy shorts.
Sun 23 September 2018
© Ewen Roberts/Creative Commons Jessica Hynes writes a drama inspired by Spike Milligan
For a Radio 3 tribute also featuring a play from comic Toby Hadoke
23/09/2018 … W1A and Spaced star Jessica Hynes has written a short drama for Radio 3 about a writer on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
From David Cross to Chris Tucker
The best of the week's live comedy
23/09/2018 … The week's best live comedy.
Joel and Nish take on the world again
Watch a preview in our round-up of the week's comedy on TV and radio
23/09/2018 … The week’s best comedy on TV and radio… Monday September 24TRAVEL MAN: 48 HOURS IN SLOVENIA Richard Ayoade is joined by Eddie Izzard to visit the Slovenian…
© Will Smith/Instagram Now look who's doing stand-up...
Will Smith knocks an item of his bucket list
23/09/2018 … Not many new comedians get to open for Dave Chappelle the first time they ever perform stand-up.
Tom wasn't living a good life...
How Richard Briers hated his most famous character
23/09/2018 … It is the role he is most fondly remembered for – but Richard Briers hated his character in The Good Life, according to a new biography.