Michael Palin joins the Slapstick Festival of classic comedy
12/02/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,000 events Chortle currently has listed.
2023 Archives
Sun 12 February 2023
Sat 11 February 2023
Armando Iannucci’s Avenue 5 runs out of space
HBO comedy ends, as Hugh Laurie finds a new job
11/02/2023 … Armando Iannucci’s space comedy Avenue 5 has officially ended.
Fri 10 February 2023
© Klaus Nielsen/Pexels I'm fed up working the condom factory...
10/02/2023 … Tweets of the week I prefer to visit Hyde Park during the day when it's Jekyll Gardens.
ChatGPT’s Not Funny
Artificial intelligence expert Mhairi Aitken on whether bots can write comedy
10/02/2023 … Can comedy be automated? That’s the question I’ve been forced to confront in the past few weeks.
Best in Class 2023 line-up announced
Scheme promotes working-class comics
10/02/2023 … The line-up for Best in Class 2023 – the showcase championing working-class comedians has been announced.
© BBC James Norton joins Jerk
Happy Valley star to appear in Tim Renkow’s sitcom
10/02/2023 … Happy Valley star James Norton is to make a guest appearance in the next series of Tim Renkow’s BBC comedy Jerk.
Goodbye comedy, I won't miss all of you self-censoring wimps
Samantha Pressdee says she's leaving stand-up 'to find a husband with balls'
10/02/2023 … I’m leaving live comedy to find a husband (with balls)! As a single woman looking for love, I thought I would meet lots of sexy funny men on the live comedy…
© BBC/Euston Films American gets Wreck
Hulu buys BBC Three horror-comedy series
10/02/2023 … BBC Three comedy-horror Wreck is heading to the US.