C4 to air Larry Dean stand-up special
The week's best comedy on TV and radio
25/06/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand in what's a very light week for new comedy: Monday June 26 BEN ELTON: THE GREAT RAILWAY DISASTER: …
2023 Archives
Sun 25 June 2023
ARG! It's a big comedy festival
25/06/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Cleese: I'm axing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
Comic ditches song from Life Of Brian stage showw
25/06/2023 … John Cleese has confirmed that he plans to ditch Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life from a new stage adaptation of Life Of Brian.
Sat 24 June 2023
Nick Frost writes a food-based memoir
How cooking helped him cope with his mum's alcoholism
24/06/2023 … Nick Frost has written a book billed as ‘a mixture of memoir and cooking’.
Fri 23 June 2023
If you made Red Dwarf these days...
23/06/2023 … Tweets of the week just want to get rich enough that people laugh when I die — Bobby Mair (@BobbyMair) June 22, 2023 If I were a billionaire stuck…
Jena Friedman: Not Funny
Book review of her 'Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Etcetera'
23/06/2023 … Like most women in comedy, American stand-up Jena Friedman tires of the ‘inane, distracting and sexist’ journalists’ question: What’s it…
MP shocked by online abuse
23/06/2023 … An MP has spoken out against online abuse – after finding herself on the receiving end.
Thu 22 June 2023
Entries open for British Comedian Of The Year 2023
Biggest prize in comedy with £10,001 up for grabs
22/06/2023 … Applications have opened for the 2023 British Comedian Of The Year competition.