ITV axes Bigheads and The Nightly Show
Comedy formats 'underperformed'
01/03/2018 … ITV has confirmed that The Nightly Show will not be returning – while also cancelling the Jason Manford fronted gameshow Bigheads.
2018 Archives
Thu 01 March 2018
Barry Crimmins dies at 64
Pioneering US comic who fought internet paedophiles
01/03/2018 … Pioneering American comedian Barry Crimmins has died at the age of 64.
Matt Lucas to star in Me And My Girl
New stage production in Chichester
01/03/2018 … Matt Lucas is to take the lead in a new stage production of Me And My Girl.
Growing a human inside you? Have a free comedy ticket
Club's plan to make happier babies
01/03/2018 … It might be an extreme length to go to to blag free tickets… but a comedy club is letting pregnant women into their shows for gratis this month.
Revealed: The swathes of material cut from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
'Any fool can write but only a writer can cut’
01/03/2018 … Douglas Adams wrote an ‘elaborate and elegant’ opening for his third Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy book – which he subsequently ditched.
Second series for Richard Herring's Relativity
01/03/2018 … Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Richard Herring’s family sitcom Relativity.
Could you be Chortle's next reviewer?
Our bid to widen the range of critical voices at Edinburgh
01/03/2018 … Chortle today launches a search for a new comedy reviewer for the Edinburgh Fringe.
Wed 28 February 2018
Putting the comics in comic strip
New book based on stand-ups' war stories
28/02/2018 … Comedians’ stories of the ups and downs of life on the road have been turned into comic strips for a new book.