Paul Merton's back on tour with his Impro Chums
The best of the week's live comedy
20/03/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,158 events Chortle currently has listed.
2022 Archives
Sun 20 March 2022
Fri 18 March 2022
Rock Profile with Matt Lucas and David Walliams
Format revived for Red Nose Day
18/03/2022 … Here are Matt Lucas and David Walliams reviving their Rock Profile format for Comic Relief.
French and Saunders in the Repair Shop
18/03/2022 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have popped into the Repair Shop 'where much-loved treasures are brought back to life', The duo will reprise their characters…
Bill Bailey: Why the BBC rejected my Eurovision song
An ‘eco-anthem’ inspired by Dad's Army
18/03/2022 … Bill Bailey has revealed his bid for Eurovision was rejected by the BBC for being ‘too silly’.
Let's hear it for petrol pumps!
18/03/2022 … Tweets of the week I get very nostalgic on the internet.
© J.E.T. 603/CC BY-SA 2.0 Kylie Minogue drops out of Ghost team's Comic Relief sketch
18/03/2022 … Kylie Minogue will not be appearing in a sketch with the Ghost cast on tonight’s Comic Relief telethon, after she contracted Covid.
© Netflix Catherine Cohen: The Twist Is… She’s Gorgeous
Review of the new Netflix version of the comedian's Edinburgh award-winning show
18/03/2022 … Has anyone quite so perfectly parodied a personality type – very possibly her own – as Catherine Cohen? In The Twist Is… She’s…
© Channel 4 The Great returns to Channel 4
Broadcaster has rights to series 2
18/03/2022 … Channel 4 has snapped up the rights to the satirical period comedy-drama The Great, which will air thus summer The Emmy-nominated series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine…