Another venue launches desperate bid for help
London's Etcetera Theatre battling for survival
24/08/2020 … London’s Etcetera Theatre has become the latest comedy venue to send up a distress signal as the impact of Covid-19 bites ever harder.
2020 Archives
Mon 24 August 2020
Richard Gadd 'lays bare the blackest demons of his psyche'
A throwback to the 2016 Fringe, where Bill Burr and Louis CK made flying visits
24/08/2020 … How long ago 2016 was; a time when it was still OK to like Louis CK - who got a five-star Chortle review on a flying visit to the Edinbugrh Fringe.
Why John Oliver has a sewage plant named after him
Bizarre beef with Connecticut city
24/08/2020 … Few comedians get immortalised by having a major public site named after them.
Comedians join Roald & Beatrix movie
Rob Brydon,Jessica Hynes, Alison Steadman, Nick Mohammed, Nina Sosanya and Bill Bailey start filming
24/08/2020 … A raft of British comedy stars has joined the cast of a new family film inspired by the true story of when a six-year-old Roald Dahl met his idol Beatrix Potter.
Channel 4 to celebrate black comedy circuit
Mo Gilligan presents documentary for Black History Month
24/08/2020 … Mo Gilligan is to present a Channel 4 documentary about Britain’s black comedy circuit.
Sun 23 August 2020
© BBC/Nit TV/Ray Burmiston Harry Hill's World Of TV
23/08/2020 … Where have we seen this before? Harry Hill offering his surreal commentary on scenes from television… But Harry Hill’s World Of TV differs from the…
© BBC Famalam Season 3
23/08/2020 … It’s a shame the new series of Famalam has run into a racism storm on its release, as the row over offensive Jamaican stereotypes certainly doesn’t reflect…
'Vicious acid-queen putdowns of celebrities zing with a vitriolic passion'
Reviews of Katherine Ryan, Nish Kumar and more from the 2015 Fringe
23/08/2020 … A major change to Chortle’s reviews in 2015, as we introduced half-stars to try to add at least a little more subtlety to the blunt tool of the star-rating…