1970s sitcom star Tony Selby dies at 83
Actor's credits include Get Some In
06/09/2021 … Actor Tony Selby – who starred in1970s sitcom Get Some In – has died at the age of 83.
2021 Archives
Mon 06 September 2021
Meet this year's Chortle Student Comedy Award finalists
06/09/2021 … The long-delayed final of the latest Chortle Student Comedy Awards take place later this month.
Whose job is it to deal with aggressive comedy punters?
Benamin Bello, aka President Obonjo, has a close shave on stage
06/09/2021 … It would never have happened to a real dictator… At my gig on Friday, a member of the audience came on stage to attack me while in character as President…
West End run for spoof woke warrior Titania McGrath
Alice Marshall brings Andrew Doyle's radical character to the London stage
06/09/2021 … Spoof woke warrior Titania McGrath is to play the West End.
Stand-up Phil Jerrod dies of cancer
'An incredibly kind and talented man, who was taken far too soon'
06/09/2021 … Stand-up comedian Phil Jerrod has died of cancer at the age of 42.
Ed Gamble joins Great British Menu
Comic to judge BBC cooking programme
06/09/2021 … Ed Gamble is to be one of the judges on the next series of BBC Two's cooking challenge show Great British Menu.
David Baddiel is writing a memoir about his parents
Based on his stand-up show My Family (Not The Sitcom)
06/09/2021 … David Baddiel is writing a memoir based on the stand-up show he performed about his parents.
How John Cleese and other snobby sexists made my life a misery
Miriam Margolyes on the Footlights 'shits' who turned her off comedy
06/09/2021 … They may have been comedy pioneers while still at university, but John Cleese, Bill Oddie and Graham Chapman were ‘total shits’ who made Miriam Margolyes’s…