2023 Archives

Sun 26 March 2023

One Swallow makes a stunner

26/03/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,000-plus events Chortle currently has listed.

Off Menu and off grid: James Acaster and Ed Gamble are Hunted

The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

26/03/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week: Sunday March 26 WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: The series continues with Darren Harriot and…

Right-wing comics ‘tend to be sexist and racist’

Eddie Izzard thought that style had gone away...

26/03/2023 … Right-wing comics ‘tend to be sexist and racist’, Eddie Izzard has said.

Dara O Briain: 'All we got was grief over Mock The Week'

But he admits some of the criticism was 'bang on'

26/03/2023 … Dara O Briain has admitted that criticism of early series of Mock The Week for being too combative and not diverse enough was ‘bang on’.

Sat 25 March 2023

ITV pays tribute to Eric Sykes

On what would have been his 100th birthday

25/03/2023 … ITV is to broadcast Eric Sykes's epsiode of This Is Your Life to celebrate the centenary of the comedian and writer's birth.

John Bishop plays tribute to his mum, who has died at 80

The reason he pulled out of panto in Dublin this week

25/03/2023 … John Bishop has revealed that he had to pull out of the Mother Goose panto this week because of the 'heartbreaking' death of his mother, In a touching…