After Life wins a Tric Award
Ceremony also honours GB News, Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan
27/06/2023 … Ricky Gervais’s After Life has been named best streaming show at the Tric Awards.
2023 Archives
Tue 27 June 2023
Comedy stars join Dreaming Whilst Black
Including Isy Suttie, Peter Serafinowicz and Jessica Hynes h
27/06/2023 … Isy Suttie, Peter Serafinowicz and Jessica Hynes have joined the cast of new BBC comedy Dreaming Whilst Black, it has been announced today.
© BBC/Lingo Queen Of Oz loses a third of its viewers
Catherine Tate's sitcom proves a turn-off
27/06/2023 … Catherine Tate’s new sitcom Queen Of Oz shed more than a third of its viewers between its first two episodes.
Is this what comedy is now? Posting one-minute clips for the rest of our lives?
André De Freitas wants time and space to make something better
27/06/2023 … Growing up in Portugal we didn’t have much comedy on TV but when something did reach us, it was amazing.
Seeing a humpback whale puts comedy into perspective!
The final instalment of Chortle Student Comedy Award Caitriona Dowden's Australian comedy diary
27/06/2023 … Caitriona Dowden won last year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award – and her prize was to tour down under, largely courtesy of the Comedy Lounge in Perth,…
Test your knowledge of 1990s stand-up
27/06/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Joke Man trailer
New documentary film about Jackie Martling
27/06/2023 … Here's a trailer for a new documentary about Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, described as America's last great joke teller.
Why doing it doggy-style makes Lara Ricote laugh
27/06/2023 … Here's 2022 Edinburgh best newcomer Lara Ricote talking about who she considers herself a 'girl' and not a full-blown woman.