Chortle editor Steve Bennett on the Jennifer Saunders 'culture war' row
16/06/2021 … Time was when The Sun would have hated alternative comedy and all it stood for, banishing traditional gags about Irishmen, mothers-in-law and the poofs to the dustbin…
Returning to BritBox this autumn
16/06/2021 … Nicola Sturgeon gives Boris Johnson a 'Glasgow kiss' in this brief trailer for the new series of Spitting Image.
Russell Brand does Shakespeare
16/06/2021 … Russell Brand is to film a one-man theatre show about Shakespeare.
Ab Fab stars says 'woke' concerns 'stop a lot of the fun'
16/06/2021 … As a pioneer of the alternative comedy movement that banished old-school racist and sexist comedy from the mainstream, you might expect Jennifer Saunders to be alert…
15/06/2021 … Stevie Martin is trying to get the deposit back on her flat - and it isn't quite as easy as she hoped.
15/06/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Comedians to perform from inside casks
15/06/2021 … Maybe they’re trying out for Caskmaster… Comics Matt Richardson and Kojo Anim are to perform stand-up from inside barrels in a new promotional campaign.
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton collabrate with author
15/06/2021 … A new book offering an episode-by-episode guide to Inside No 9 is to be released later this year.
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